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Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Suno_Regin on February 10, 2007, 09:36:37 pm
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Alright, after a long time of being on these forums (not as long as some people, but enough to realize a certain few things) I've noticed something about "making mistakes in your posts." For example, if you were to give 50 points about something, and mess up your phrasing on even 1 by not being litteral enough, you're going to have 6 pages of people jumping on you over it and only concidering that one point and flaming it up and down.
My perfect example, is Janner's GM Events thread, where he named about 5 points about events, but everyone spammed so many pages just about the one point he made about pets. Why do people do this? Is it just the way he phrased it? Of course, I skimmed this thread, but on each page I found something about the pets, and not enough about the...4? other points he made there about the events. Sure, pets don't move around yet, you can roleplay it, but what about all the other things he mentioned? Those are OOC, try to find some mistake in his phrasing on those and flame him on another 20 pages over it.
I see this sort of thing all the time. You have to make the perfect post or else you're going to get spammed with idiots saying how you're wrong or you should listen to everyone else, when they don't even bother to read everything but one of the things you've posted. Now, I suppose someone's going to skim through my post and somehow say how I'm flaming a GM in some way for whatever freaking reason.
That's really all I'm going to say. Have fun spamming my thread.
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Seems like you didn't read the entire thread.
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Well said Suno...
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I generally don't comment on things I agree with. I'm a negative person.
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I see this sort of thing all the time. You have to make the perfect post or else you're going to get spammed with idiots saying how you're wrong or you should listen to everyone else, when they don't even bother to read everything but one of the things you've posted. Now, I suppose someone's going to skim through my post and somehow say how I'm flaming a GM in some way for whatever freaking reason.
Don't base your actions on listening the opinion of most (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream#In_sociology"), because then you'll be nothing but another one in conformity to what they claim to be the truth, be original and stand for your opinion regardless of what the mainstream of this forum thinks.
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/sarcasm
OMG you suck, you have no idea what you're talking about, listen to other people for awhile u N00B!!!!11111111
/end sarcasm
I know what you mean :thumbdown:
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I agree and I disagree.
I have seen this happen and I think it is indeed annoying enough, but only when the points are conneted to eachother to proof a point.
If it's simply a list obviously you could disagree with one point while it doesn't have any affect on the others on the list. However sometimes I also see posts with several arguments to proof a point. If then someone focusses on disproving only one of the points there and then acting like that disqualifies the whole post I have to raise an eyebrow. Specially if several people are posting almost exactly the same way only in different wording ;)
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Suno, how many times are you going to post this?
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This is really my first time ever posting this...
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I agree mate, good point. Though I have failed to ever make a valid point in a single one of my posts (damn proud of it) and I haven't been bothered by it much...so yeah. Though I remember a time I did. *shivers*
Kiern:: http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/grunter.htm
Might be me too, so it's all good. Though I'm probably something worse.
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Don't base your actions on listening the opinion of most (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream#In_sociology"), because then you'll be nothing but another one in conformity to what they claim to be the truth, be original and stand for your opinion regardless of what the mainstream of this forum thinks.
Lol, that would only ever sound right coming from you :P
Suno, the problem here is; we're all egotistical, narcissistic writers who refuse to be bested in anything to do with words and writing. In order to avoid being defeated in argument, they focus on the one thing their opponent does wrong, or their weakest argument no matter what it is, and ignore the rest. It's a typical debating maneuver. When people start to employ this tactic, I just count it as a win ;D