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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4503993" data-attributes="member: 59506">I also am not attempting to flame or start a war either. I'm very sincere about this and mean no ill will. I don't feel, or think, nor did I imply that I have the right as the OP, to decide what can and can't be posted in a thread. I don't think an OP has anymore rights than anyone else on ENWorld. I've never seen anything posted here on ENWorld granting such rights or exceptions to OPs. My name here is El Mahdi, not Morrus. I didn't decree, I asked. I asked that people please not ruin the thread. As the OP, I do have a vested interest in the thread. I started it for a reason, to see how many people were going to buy a sub or not, and there reasons why - nothing more, nothing less. I asked that the thread not be turned into a discussion about statistics, 3E vs 4E, or armchair interpretations of what the poll means. In every single thread I've read here on ENWorld, with the same or similiar discourse that had started, all seem to turn into a running battle of who can interpret the data better, and attacking of those who don't agree with their interpretation. In that thread, one person made a comment about it being interesting that so many people seemed to be leaning a certain way. Which in a matter of two posts went from there, to those playing 3E would automatically vote negative (immediate edition/flame war tinder), then to the very next post declaring how early responses implied a specific involvement of those who preferred a specific system (an assumption that nobody can make unless they have the ability to read the minds of each poster), then to whether there should be a poll for only those who prefer a specific system (something impossible to do but definitely introduces more edition war fodder), then to a sudden recitations of statististics as fact that that none of the people saying them have any way of knowing (at least one however did say they were just guesstimates), all indications of a runaway train picking up steam and heading for a war about 3E over 4E, how someone is a fanboy for their interpretation, then another is a hater for their interpretaion, and it's all over for any chance of a continued discussion about what the threads subject actually is. (Whew......Big Breath and run-on sentence). I don't think asking for this was heavy handed, or anything more than what most people wish wouldn't happen on threads. The conversation there had been going so well for three and a half pages without any contention, argument or edition bashing that I just wanted it to continue, and not devolve into the wars that tend to start with exactly the type of discourse taking place. Edit: There's no one here on ENWorld, that's read even just a dozen threads, that hasn't seen the exact thing I'm talking about happen.  I'm sorry if my request came across as rude or unreasonable, I just didn't want to see it devolve into what seems to be the typical end of a lot of like threads.</blockquote>

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