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With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base
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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5999589" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>One of two things, both of which happen to arise out of the same kind of questions--even if you don't know which one you are likely to get when you start:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To clarify for me, the poster, other interested participants, or even lurkers, what is being discussed. It's one thing to take a person's testimony of his experience at face value for sake of argument. It's another thing beyond that to gain some insight into that experience and/or the techniques that produce it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To give a poster writing in bad faith plenty of rope. For example, this is what happened with a poster that I knew was going to get banned over a year before the ban finally happened.</li> </ul><p>Unfortunately, because the questions are generally the same, and things can get heated, people can assume the latter intention when the former will do. Manipulating the similarity is a big part of how people troll such discussions.</p><p> </p><p>On the plus side, these discussions spiral in and out of different aspects of the topic, with people dropping in or out all the time. I suppose a lot of people see this a a bug, but for me it a feature.</p><p> </p><p>There's this thread of conversation going on right in this topic between several people that I've said very little about, <strong>but I have read carefully every word</strong>. I've gone into lurker mode on that particular thread, and haven't needed to ask any questions, because happily I'm getting some of that insight merely watching. Woohoo! Free insight, with no work on my part--merely paying attention. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5999589, member: 54877"] One of two things, both of which happen to arise out of the same kind of questions--even if you don't know which one you are likely to get when you start: [LIST] [*]To clarify for me, the poster, other interested participants, or even lurkers, what is being discussed. It's one thing to take a person's testimony of his experience at face value for sake of argument. It's another thing beyond that to gain some insight into that experience and/or the techniques that produce it. [*]To give a poster writing in bad faith plenty of rope. For example, this is what happened with a poster that I knew was going to get banned over a year before the ban finally happened. [/LIST]Unfortunately, because the questions are generally the same, and things can get heated, people can assume the latter intention when the former will do. Manipulating the similarity is a big part of how people troll such discussions. On the plus side, these discussions spiral in and out of different aspects of the topic, with people dropping in or out all the time. I suppose a lot of people see this a a bug, but for me it a feature. There's this thread of conversation going on right in this topic between several people that I've said very little about, [B]but I have read carefully every word[/B]. I've gone into lurker mode on that particular thread, and haven't needed to ask any questions, because happily I'm getting some of that insight merely watching. Woohoo! Free insight, with no work on my part--merely paying attention. :D [/QUOTE]
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