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Posted by: ctjl96
Posted by: burritosenior
Posted by: ctjl96
I'm just pointing out a particularly annoying hypocritical habit of this forum. No biggie.How is pointing out how poor quality certain threads are hypocritical again?
Crying about poor discussion value adds no discussion itself and is thus hypocritical and, IMO, 10x more annoying than the thread in question 90% of the time.
Again, condescending attitudes on an Internet forum.
Threads are the things made to spark and create discussions. Discussions are the things that can be one of two things: productive and worthwhile, or unproductive and a waste of space. It is on the thread-makers, the sparkers of conversation and pioneers of discussion, to make things have discussion value.
If someone is a poster who always makes threads with discussion value, and always responds to posts in an appropriate manner, and then comes to you and tells you that your thread is not worth being discussed, that person is just telling you that you've done a poor job at making your thread and that in the future you would do well to try harder at making something people actually can care about and discuss quite a bit.
It's not hypocritical to tell someone that their thread is not worth discussing as the publicly accepted discussion-worthiness of any given thread or topic is something that's been discussed at nauseum since the inception of the first internet forum, and before that since the inception of language.
Why do we say the things we say about the things we say them about? Why are things the way they are? What does it mean to have meaning and worth?
These are philosophical questions which have been pondered since the times of the great greek philosophers and the discussion on these questions and ones like it has not stagnated since.
Therefore asking whether or not or stating whether or not a thread has no value is very much up for debate and has a large amount of discussion value, thus making your comment void and ends up just making it look like a vain grasp for a stepping stone above your opponent to attempt to make them look lower than yourself with sub-par logic.
tl;dr: your idea is fundamentally wrong because saying your thread has no discussion value is a very discussion-worthy claim.
OT: Nobody responded to my other post and my ideas haven't changed so now I'm left out of the loop. :(
P.S.: I just got back from a slept-through car ride from the Orioles' loss to KC (sad face), and so am a bit drowsy. Please excuse any confused, inconsistent, or unorganized thoughts, ideas, sentences, or paragraphs.
[Edited on 05.27.2012 4:14 PM PDT]