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<blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4367031" data-attributes="member: 49613">OK. Here are the two options:&quot;Yes. Edition wars just cause fights.&quot; &quot;No. Edition wars are the way to have real discussion.&quot;The poll is clearly weighted toward the &quot;Yes&quot; option. First, because &quot;wars&quot; implies &quot;fights&quot; so the Yes choice is practically a tautology. Second, because there's an enormous difference between allowing &quot;edition wars&quot; (which at some point slipped from being a sarcastic shorthand to becoming a category) and thinking that they &quot;are the way to have real discussion&quot;... in fact, not only is the &quot;Yes&quot; option practically a tautology, the &quot;No&quot; option is practically a contradiction.And I have no vested interest in being oppressed. I'm not oppressed by anything on this free web forum. I'm just constantly irritated by disingenuous flamebait. And before you retort with &quot;then just don't visit the site&quot;, I'll remind you that if everybody but the 4E Rules Discussion crowd leaves General Discussion, General Discussion just becomes 4E Rules Discussion II. Which may be what some people want, but I presume that's not the intent of the Admins since they bothered to set up two different fora.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Korgoth, post: 4367031, member: 49613"] OK. Here are the two options: "Yes. Edition wars just cause fights." "No. Edition wars are the way to have real discussion." The poll is clearly weighted toward the "Yes" option. First, because "wars" implies "fights" so the Yes choice is practically a tautology. Second, because there's an enormous difference between allowing "edition wars" (which at some point slipped from being a sarcastic shorthand to becoming a category) and thinking that they "are the way to have real discussion"... in fact, not only is the "Yes" option practically a tautology, the "No" option is practically a contradiction. And I have no vested interest in being oppressed. I'm not oppressed by anything on this free web forum. I'm just constantly irritated by disingenuous flamebait. And before you retort with "then just don't visit the site", I'll remind you that if everybody but the 4E Rules Discussion crowd leaves General Discussion, General Discussion just becomes 4E Rules Discussion II. Which may be what some people want, but I presume that's not the intent of the Admins since they bothered to set up two different fora. [/QUOTE]

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