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The few discussions/debates/threads I've participated in on the OT forum of Dakka have been pretty friendly and I don't feel like anything was very mean spirited. In fact, the discussions here can serve to keep your tools sharp when it comes to debating. What have been your experiences?

The debates are good, however certain posters tend to try and turn the thread in a particular direction if they made a previously incorrect statement in an attempt to cover it up.

Many of the debates quickly become completely bonkers, and end up as impossibly complicated arguments and counter arguments.

Debates vary in terms of intellectual stimulation and entertainment.

Of the debators, there are several who are highly intelligent and logical thinkers. Debating them is not advised as they can quickly turn over your position with numerous fallacies you commit and cause people not accustomed to their levels of knowledge and logic to get frustrated and upset.

There are a few debators who do not actually debate but rather ruin the thought process of the argument by adding in inane arguments, statements, and pictures that undermine the integrity of the thread and ruin what could of been a really good debate.

Then you have a few with heads up their butts who only like their point of view and do not brook any dissent that their position is wrong and will go to great lengths to debate how they are right and everyone else is wrong.

The majority however fall inbetween the extremes and can hold stimulating debates and sometimes goof off inbetween. These make a thread fun and interesting and informative to read.

As for why I do not mention names: you decide who is who and what is what for it is not my realm to decide. It is opinion true, but I am keep my thoughts to myself on this matter save for what I have said already.

DarkAngelHopeful wrote:The few discussions/debates/threads I've participated in on the OT forum of Dakka have been pretty friendly and I don't feel like anything was very mean spirited. In fact, the discussions here can serve to keep your tools sharp when it comes to debating. What have been your experiences?

I would like to direct you to have a browse through some of the locked threads! Things can get pretty heated round these parts.

I kind of like it that way, though.

Stuff I actually give a feth over? Decent debate's seldomly problems.

Religion and Politics? Constant arguing and e-peen waving.

To be fair, the religious arguments seem to be decreasing.






Probably because there's no god.

*duck*

LOL.

I'd rather die then go to heaven.

My suspicion is that your willingness to read a thread will correlate negatively with the degree to which you will disparage it.

Literature threads, and those about film can get quite volatile.

Albatross wrote:To be fair, the religious arguments seem to be decreasing.






Probably because there's no god.

*duck*

See Alby...that's how it starts,this thread will now inevitably turn ugly.....good job

dogma wrote:My suspicion is that your willingness to read a thread will correlate negatively with the degree to which you will disparage it.

Literature threads, and those about film can get quite volatile.

The most volatile forum on the site is 'You Make Da Call' - it's ridiculous. People just flat-out insulting each other over their interpretations of 40k rules.

Madness.

@FITZZ -

But the rules are written so clearly, not at all like the Constitution.











*ducks*

dogma wrote:But the rules are written so clearly, not at all like the Constitution.











*ducks*

Hey, you don't get to lower yourself to our level Dogma! Your like a Harvard gradjuate or sumthin'.









*forgets to duck*

It would be better if we had more active resident mods, or at least if they didn't drag topics into trolldom themselves so often.

ShumaGorath wrote:It would be better if we had more active resident mods, or at least if they didn't drag topics into trolldom themselves so often.

That actually brings up a very interesting point, as there are some mods who treat the OT forum as a joke.

No seriously, here comes criticism of moderators.

The standard for what can and cannot be acceptable in the OT forum is low. So long as you are nice and stay on topic, things are okay.

However, you may get a WHOLE page where moderators derail the whole topic BY THEMSELVES. Wouldn't it be prudent not to engage in such behavior if you have to close threads because others behave that way?

Of course Dakka has some fine moderators and they are overall very nice people. I just don't like it when they have to intervene in a situation when they do the same thing as those who offended to close a thread.

*does not duck on purpose*

ShumaGorath wrote:It would be better if we had more active resident mods, or at least if they didn't drag topics into trolldom themselves so often.

Pft! You're like the kid who blames his parents for going away for the weekend because all he ate was Cheetos the whole time and now he feels sick.

There's food in the fridge, Shuma! Your parents being away is just an excuse! You just ate those Cheetos because they tasted good, didn't you? ADMIT IT!

Albatross wrote:To be fair, the religious arguments seem to be decreasing.






Probably because there's no god.

*duck*

Sigged.

WarOne wrote:
Hey, you don't get to lower yourself to our level Dogma! Your like a Harvard gradjuate or sumthin'.









*forgets to duck*

You got that from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 421? Yeah, I read that too.

The sad thing about a guy like you is that in about 50 years you might start doin' some thinkin' on your own and by then you'll realize there are only two certainties in life:

1) Don't do that.

2) You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

God they're annoying. Especially when you're looking for something in a thread....

Having been in only one debate here I can say so far it's been pretty good, everyone brought up good point's and managed to not get the thread locked.

Albatross wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:It would be better if we had more active resident mods, or at least if they didn't drag topics into trolldom themselves so often.

Pft! You're like the kid who blames his parents for going away for the weekend because all he ate was Cheetos the whole time and now he feels sick.

There's food in the fridge, Shuma! Your parents being away is just an excuse! You just ate those Cheetos because they tasted good, didn't you? ADMIT IT!

No, I'm blaming the parents for getting hammered and trashing the house, then acting surprised or disappointed when their kids do the same. Also I like Doritoes, not Cheetos.

Cheeseburger Doritoes?

Chesseburger Dominoes?

ShumaGorath wrote:

Albatross wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:It would be better if we had more active resident mods, or at least if they didn't drag topics into trolldom themselves so often.

Pft! You're like the kid who blames his parents for going away for the weekend because all he ate was Cheetos the whole time and now he feels sick.

There's food in the fridge, Shuma! Your parents being away is just an excuse! You just ate those Cheetos because they tasted good, didn't you? ADMIT IT!

No, I'm blaming the parents for getting hammered and trashing the house, then acting surprised or disappointed when their kids do the same. Also I like Doritoes, not Cheetos.

Yeah, I prefer Doritos. With a lovely bit of hoummous.

Humus can go to hell.

That's your problem Dogma.

You have no sense of Hummous

dogma wrote:

You got that from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 421? Yeah, I read that too.

The sad thing about a guy like you is that in about 50 years you might start doin' some thinkin' on your own and by then you'll realize there are only two certainties in life:

1) Don't do that.

2) You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

It's not your fault.

dogma wrote:

WarOne wrote:
Hey, you don't get to lower yourself to our level Dogma! Your like a Harvard gradjuate or sumthin'.









*forgets to duck*

You got that from Vickers. Work in Essex County, page 421? Yeah, I read that too.

The sad thing about a guy like you is that in about 50 years you might start doin' some thinkin' on your own and by then you'll realize there are only two certainties in life:

1) Don't do that.

2) You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

I do plenty of thinking on my own, thank you. I've already come to two conclusions that didn't take 50 years :

1) Don't debate dogma.

2) if you do enter a debate and correct me, just accept it and move on since it is not worth the time to correct you since you are probably right and I am wrong.

Or you could like you know. Have a life instead of debating on the internet.

OH! BURN