dpdx
Explorer
Re: my take
In point of fact, many of us have paid cold, hard cash to keep this board going. We're called Community Supporters. Without us, this board is less than it was, at the very best, and does not continue at all, at the very worst.
While we do not set the rules, we've paid for the right more than most to have an opinion about what goes on here, as long as we play by them: me, you, Mistwell, and many others. And sometimes, we even post it! (the Horror!)
So while I respect your right to have an opinion about Mistwell's post, when your opinion precludes anyone else from having the right to their own opinion, your opinion is wrong. But you're lucky, in a sense, that ENWorld works the way it does - your opinion gets to stay on the board, regardless of how wrong it is!
(This board is mostly opinion; especially so in General Discussion: "Most favorite setting", "Did Rangers get the shaft?", "Bad Class/Race combinations", etc.)
Even Hivemind's an opinion, in the truest sense - "Should a bunch of posters hang out on the boards and have a thread just for the sake of conversation?"
Therefore, Anti-Hivemind's an opinion, too, and in the minds of a few people, just as valid. But even if it weren't, it could still exist on the board, just like your ham-handed attempt to regulate others does.
So it would seem that Dinkledog registered his opinion on Anti-Hivemind, and then Mistwell registered his opinion about his perceived treatment within that statement. Everybody has the right - so far, so good.
Whether Dinkledog meant to abuse Mistwell is pretty much known only to Dinkledog. However, Mistwell felt that Dinkledog crossed a line, maybe even several, and has the right, ESPECIALLY as a person with a financial stake in this board, to call him on it, and at that, especially in Meta, where it's been set up to do so.
On the matter at hand (brace yourself: here comes another opinion!), I think Hivemind and Anti-Hivemind pretty much make the same amount of difference to me on the board: they're BOTH clutter that I have to wade through while the threads I follow get pushed to page 2 and beyond.
Of course, this entire post is my opinion, and you're as free to blow it off as I am to post it.
And in that, we can all rejoice!
Regardless of the actual topic at issue, this particular premise is totally false.jgbrowning said:
In point of fact, many of us have paid cold, hard cash to keep this board going. We're called Community Supporters. Without us, this board is less than it was, at the very best, and does not continue at all, at the very worst.
While we do not set the rules, we've paid for the right more than most to have an opinion about what goes on here, as long as we play by them: me, you, Mistwell, and many others. And sometimes, we even post it! (the Horror!)
So while I respect your right to have an opinion about Mistwell's post, when your opinion precludes anyone else from having the right to their own opinion, your opinion is wrong. But you're lucky, in a sense, that ENWorld works the way it does - your opinion gets to stay on the board, regardless of how wrong it is!
(This board is mostly opinion; especially so in General Discussion: "Most favorite setting", "Did Rangers get the shaft?", "Bad Class/Race combinations", etc.)
Even Hivemind's an opinion, in the truest sense - "Should a bunch of posters hang out on the boards and have a thread just for the sake of conversation?"
Therefore, Anti-Hivemind's an opinion, too, and in the minds of a few people, just as valid. But even if it weren't, it could still exist on the board, just like your ham-handed attempt to regulate others does.
So it would seem that Dinkledog registered his opinion on Anti-Hivemind, and then Mistwell registered his opinion about his perceived treatment within that statement. Everybody has the right - so far, so good.
Whether Dinkledog meant to abuse Mistwell is pretty much known only to Dinkledog. However, Mistwell felt that Dinkledog crossed a line, maybe even several, and has the right, ESPECIALLY as a person with a financial stake in this board, to call him on it, and at that, especially in Meta, where it's been set up to do so.
On the matter at hand (brace yourself: here comes another opinion!), I think Hivemind and Anti-Hivemind pretty much make the same amount of difference to me on the board: they're BOTH clutter that I have to wade through while the threads I follow get pushed to page 2 and beyond.
Of course, this entire post is my opinion, and you're as free to blow it off as I am to post it.
And in that, we can all rejoice!
