"Fallacy!"-free Fridays on Enworld RPG threads?

[Umbran]

I'd much rather see EnWorld as a clearing house for homemade crunch than as place were bored nerds go to get their rants out.

Ok, rant over.

Irony can be pretty ironic.

Insert the anal retentive guy here: Btw, it should be "contend". Being content in vain is an interesting concept, but perhaps not what you wanted to convey

 

[fuzzlewump]

[MENTION=4937]Celebrim[/MENTION]

I think the idea isn't to have friday be fallacy free, but to have fridays be free of people calling "fallacy!"

I think.

My experience on enworld has been if there is a logical fallacy someone will call it, but an opinion will be regarded as such. And I was thinking, if you walked in to a new York bar saying Yankees suck, blah blah is the worst pitcher ever I'd actually expect someone to say thats just your opinion and then cite statistics of the pitcher.

No one would say "fallacy" but otherwise the reaction would be similar. Actually, I'm confused, what's going on?

 

[Mark Hope]

I used to ask my gf for fallacy every Friday. Turns out I've been spelling it wrong all along!

 

[jaerdaph]

It's a nice idea but we'd have to find a cure for our collective Asperger's Syndrome first.

I hear Jerry Lewis is looking for a new Telethon to host...

 

[wrecan]

I think the idea isn't to have friday be fallacy free, but to have fridays be free of people calling "fallacy!"

Which, ironically, would make it the most fallacy-filled day of the week. We should call it Fallacy Friday!

 

[Yesway Jose]

I think the idea isn't to have friday be fallacy free, but to have fridays be free of people calling "fallacy!"

I think.

Yep! I very purposefully put it as "Fallacy!"-free (note the quotation marks) so that anal-retentives couldn't accuse the term of being fallacious. Also, see 2nd last paragraph of the OP.

 

[jaerdaph]

Yep! I very purposefully put it as "Fallacy!"-free (note the quotation marks) so that anal-retentives couldn't accuse the term of being fallacious. Also, see 2nd last paragraph of the OP.

So nobody is allowed to perform fallacious on Fridays. Got it!

 

[mkill]

Suggestion Saturday just started over here in my time zone. I suggest that we stop this thread right here and try to get some juicy fallacy-o.

 

[Umbran]

Back to being more serious about the OP for a moment...

If you want something to be different, it is usually far easier to try to institute a "you may" rather than a "you may not".

"You may not" requires enforcement. What can you do if someone violates your unofficial ban?

"You may do X" is far simpler, as you can lead by example, with just a few people. Want to see repeated focus on threads of a certain type on certain days? Well, then start and engage in such threads - they'll float to the top just by your involvement, and become more prominent.

 

[Yesway Jose]

Back to being more serious about the OP for a moment...

If you want something to be different, it is usually far easier to try to institute a "you may" rather than a "you may not".

"You may not" requires enforcement. What can you do if someone violates your unofficial ban?

"You may do X" is far simpler, as you can lead by example, with just a few people. Want to see repeated focus on threads of a certain type on certain days? Well, then start and engage in such threads - they'll float to the top just by your involvement, and become more prominent.

I agree. The OP is a logically unsound premise, I know that. After all, how can everyone recognize "Fallacy!"-free Friday if it's not widely advertised/understood and can't compensate for disparate time zones and can't actually be enforced? The OP is a wishful-thinking gimmick, and it wasn't my intentions to shake things up, as much as to read the pulse of things. My gut feeling is that leading by example doesn't work if you're a Red Sox fan in a New York Yankees bar. That is, the bar has already self-selected itself to watch and cheer for Yankees and even a well-meaning Red Sox fan is going to be met with general hostility. This analogy isn't meant to place me or anyone on a sort of pariah pedestal but just to illustrate that if most people want to be anal-retentive, then it will be anal-retentive, and Red Sox fans will have to face that reality.