Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Tales and Chronicles]

Having a few criticisms of a new edition doesn’t make someone an edition warrior. Having nothing but criticism does.

Does having only critism toward an edition you don't play, don't read, refuse to inform yourself, and hate for profound reasons you cant speak out loud in polite company makes you an edition war criminal?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Does having only critism toward an edition you don't play, don't read, refuse to inform yourself, and hate for profound reasons you cant speak out loud in polite company makes you an edition war criminal?

It does raise the question why everyone wouldn't put such a person on ignore.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Does having only critism toward an edition you don't play, don't read, refuse to inform yourself, and hate for profound reasons you cant speak out loud in polite company makes you an edition war criminal?

I'll have to brush up on the Geneva Conventions, but I am definitely looking forward to Nuremburg Trials : Electric Boogaloo, wherein those who turn everything into the edition war equivalent of the Battle of Somme in order to unleash the toxic agent of "I heard what you said, but I turned it into what I wanted to hear, which is the same topic I always talk about," are finally brought to justice.

Justice, or course, being forced to have DEREK!!! as their roommate for a period of not less than five years.


Note to self- just because someone says wrong law-like substance does not mean you have to respond. You are good enough, you are smart enough, and doggone it, you know better by now.

...hopefully.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It does raise the question why everyone wouldn't put such a person on ignore.

Would depend if that's everything the person talks about. I've seen posters here and elsewhere that had a hobby-horse they tended to ride, but were fine on other topics.

Mind you, I can see why around here if what they did that with was 5e, given the topic lean of this board, that still wouldn't be too ruddy much, but most of the ones I've seen in the past were in places where their negative fixation wasn't as big a part of the board.

 

[Umbran]

Does having only critism toward an edition you don't play, don't read, refuse to inform yourself, and hate for profound reasons you cant speak out loud in polite company makes you an edition war criminal?

No. It just makes you someone who really, really, ought to go play, and talk about, games you actually like, rather than wallow in your discontent.

 

[overgeeked]

It does raise the question why everyone wouldn't put such a person on ignore.

Because this is the internet. There’s bound to be dozens of people who agree with them. Most others will pointlessly argue and try to change their minds. It’s only a few who will just wash their hands and hit ignore.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

double post

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Does having only critism toward an edition you don't play, don't read, refuse to inform yourself, and hate for profound reasons you cant speak out loud in polite company makes you an edition war criminal?

It’s not an issue of morality but it is obnoxious an an ineffective way to change minds or even interact with others.

So far—-and I am not THAT well versed yet…I don’t what I am hearing about the new phb.

Almost none of the changes are things I was hoping for. But…I am not going to hound people that like it, try to show others why they “shouldn’t like it” or whatever…over and over, thread after thread.

I may even come around and change my mind later but if not, it’s absurd to jump in and mount a campaign in every irl and online convo.

I did not play 4e long for reasons…and I do not feel compelled to crap in the 4e threads. Why would I?

I have heard some people say they just want to interact and the the threads that are active are about editions they hate…so…gotta do drive by crooning.

Gotta be a better way…

 

[CleverNickName]

Listing all of the M. Knight Shyamalan movies I've seen, in order of what I think are the best to the worst:

The Best
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Signs
Wide Awake
The Visit
----------the line between Good and Bad
Split
The Village
Lady in the Water
Old
Glass
After Earth
The Happening
The Last Airbender
The Worst

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There’s bound to be dozens of people who agree with them.

We have a test case here that suggests that there aren't dozens. There are maybe a handful of people at most.

There's one person who will insert themselves into every thread to argue that Domino's is the devil, despite loudly not having consumed their pizza in years and refusing to actually even look at their pizzas to be an informed critic, and who attempt to derail every thread into these arguments.

There's about two people who will never admit that Domino's makes a mistake, including one who will invent truly silly arguments to justify anything that happens -- that person whom a Domino's driver ran over actually intentionally threw themselves in front of the car in an attempt to manipulate the stock market -- and another person who seems to view anyone who mentions that Domino's got their order wrong as someone to be stalked and harassed until they finally choke on pizza crust.

No one is better off having these people on their threads, since they aren't discussing pizza in good faith and one of them is almost certainly trolling everyone.

Now, we also have at least one person who loudly proclaims how much they hate posters like the first one, but seems to spend about half of his time here responding to them. So I'd argue, for that person and people like them, engaging with trolls is their primary reason for visiting pizza discussion forums, whether they admit it (even to themselves) or not.

But for everyone else, mash that ignore link and move on. This is a quality of life decision that you're in charge of and being mad at people who, for whatever reason, intend to spend all of their time posting AI-level responses on every pizza forum, is a self-inflicted headache.