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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5592333" data-attributes="member: 54877">Edition warring overlaps with some other negative forum behaviors, but it is not those behaviors.&nbsp; Nor is all snark or passive/aggressiveness a sign of an edition warrior.&nbsp; &nbsp;Nor should either one be confused with the questionable but oft-seen debate tactic of screaming &quot;hater&quot; or &quot;fanboy&quot; (depending upon ones' perspective of the given subject, alternate spellings available) at the first sign that two other people might be having an honest disagreement but getting along just fine.&nbsp; &quot;You just say that because you ...&quot; is as bad as, &quot;I'm not saying X, but&quot;.&nbsp; Maybe worse, since it often has no reasonable basis. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;Some people simply enjoy derailing conversations, full stop.&nbsp; Exactly why that is so, and how they go about it, could consume multiple volumes.&nbsp; If this, as is claimed several times in this topic so far, is correlated with strong emotions, I suggest that the emotions are as much an effect as a cause.&nbsp; When the emotions are the effect, it is not about the topic anymore, but the perceived dishonesty or rabble rousing or trollish behavior of the current antagonist.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5592333, member: 54877"] Edition warring overlaps with some other negative forum behaviors, but it is not those behaviors. Nor is all snark or passive/aggressiveness a sign of an edition warrior. Nor should either one be confused with the questionable but oft-seen debate tactic of screaming "hater" or "fanboy" (depending upon ones' perspective of the given subject, alternate spellings available) at the first sign that two other people might be having an honest disagreement but getting along just fine. "You just say that because you ..." is as bad as, "I'm not saying X, but". Maybe worse, since it often has no reasonable basis. :p Some people simply enjoy derailing conversations, full stop. Exactly why that is so, and how they go about it, could consume multiple volumes. If this, as is claimed several times in this topic so far, is correlated with strong emotions, I suggest that the emotions are as much an effect as a cause. When the emotions are the effect, it is not about the topic anymore, but the [B]perceived[/B] dishonesty or rabble rousing or trollish behavior of the current antagonist. [/QUOTE]

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