Title: These forums are like dying.
FacistFalangistFool - February 24, 2007 02:18 AM (GMT)
Me and patriot seem to have gotten the last words in everything. What happened to that debating spirit? I'm bored and need debating to keep me alive. Seriously. All you people who post questions should post in politics too and like, debate. C'mon guys, the forum can't just be two or three people.
dimmick - February 24, 2007 05:46 PM (GMT)
College > messageboards.
Sorry.
Orborde - February 24, 2007 07:16 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (dimmick @ Feb 24 2007, 01:46 PM) |
| College > messageboards. |
Concur.
Patriot76 - February 25, 2007 12:32 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Orborde @ Feb 24 2007, 07:16 PM) |
| QUOTE (dimmick @ Feb 24 2007, 01:46 PM) | | College > messageboards. |
Concur.
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But you two still post more than a lot of the others. Seriously though, if each member posted at least once per topic, their would be 100+ different comments. Don't just use the site for help on homework (although that is what it is mostly for) without at least writing a couple of words on the political forums...
Orborde - February 25, 2007 05:58 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Patriot76 @ Feb 24 2007, 08:32 PM) |
| Seriously though, if each member posted at least once per topic, their would be 100+ different comments. Don't just use the site for help on homework (although that is what it is mostly for) without at least writing a couple of words on the political forums... |
I value quality over quantity, personally, but then again, I suppose that's why I never win any arguments.
A large part of my own silence is also thus: When anyone resorts to citing actual facts or figures, I usually trash them. So no one posts any actual citations any more, and it becomes so much rootless hot air. When the discussion gets back to things that can actually be checked against reality and the people involved begin to, instead of spending so much effort trying to tapdance around the demolition of their arguments, consider that perhaps they're wrong, or, at the very least, should do some more research before coming back to the discussion, then I might be more interested in engaging in debate again.
Bahra - February 26, 2007 12:00 AM (GMT)
Well, Orbode. Maybe some people DON'T need to research anymore. ;) Any not every argument can be backed with numbers. If every single time somebody wanted to state their opinion they needed numbers, people would spend years gathering research to decisively be able to speak their minds. Or is that what you want :o ? And the same can go for you. I haven't been on these forums very long, but from old posts of yours you don't look at yourself as wrong either. Everyone should bend over backwards to support your ideas but not their own? I should think not. Liberals. They all think that way. They are SO tolerant...as long as they are talking to another liberal.
FacistFalangistFool - February 26, 2007 09:38 PM (GMT)
Well, Bahra, I'm not sure that ORbode really deserved that one. Sometimes he does, but he didn't do too much right here. However, I do have to say that some of Bahra's points do make sense. All arguments should be backed up with facts, but they do not always have to be numerical in my eyes.
Let's cool it down before anyone is deterred from posting again.