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<blockquote data-quote="True_Blue" data-source="post: 5342400" data-attributes="member: 49066">I dont agree with the idea of this being something that should be told to new people who post here.&nbsp; Whether or not, on average, a group is more right than another group doesn't matter.&nbsp; Its wrong to basically tell the group that they should probably just be quiet because that group probably knows whats best.&nbsp; If someone did studies on females and males, and found out that males more often than females scored better on math tests, if I were on a forum about math problems, I wouldn't tell the females that when they are arguing, if more guys than girls were arguing a certain way, they should probably just give up and listen to the guys.&nbsp; That would look very sexist and it would be plain &quot;wrong&quot; in many ways.Posts like this honestly make the forum more unfriendly and accepting to new people.&nbsp; Yeah it makes the veterans feel all good inside because 90% of the people who post here probably post on a regular basis.&nbsp; So you've made most of the main people &quot;warm inside&quot; probably, which maybe is what you were going for.&nbsp; Maybe you were even pandoring towards these veterans, i dont know.&nbsp; Its a theory, but obviously only an opinion.You just seem to be under the mistaken belief that if you post this, maybe new people will curb their talk when the &quot;pros&quot; are talking.&nbsp; Which maybe is exactly what you want, I don't know.&nbsp; Me personally, I'd rather see some more thoughts and ideas on the forums even if they are doing it differently or &quot;wrong&quot;.Your whole original post, and subsequent posts, give off a bad vibe of almost trying to define a special club, and happily getting the reactions out of some of those people, in my opinion.&nbsp; It sounds like to me you wanted to throw a warning out to the people &quot;who just don't get it&quot; to fall in line, but then also get all the interactions with the veterans about how you recognize them being an important part of the community.Mostly if a post was something I dont agree with or am not interested in, I'd just let it go and not say anything.&nbsp; But this one actually would have the possibility of swaying new people from posting because &quot;they shouldn't argue with the veterans&quot;.&nbsp; They probably dont want to get jumped on if they have a differing opinion, especially by a community who recognizes post count and time spent as a status symbol.&nbsp; So a lot of times they'd be better off asking questions elsewhere where anyone can be part of an argument.The main good thing about this, is that by the experience I've seen lots of places, this thread will eventually be let knocked off the first page, no one will read it anymore, and people will still post arguments, even against the veterans, and everything will stay the same <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" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="True_Blue, post: 5342400, member: 49066"] I dont agree with the idea of this being something that should be told to new people who post here. Whether or not, on average, a group is more right than another group doesn't matter. Its wrong to basically tell the group that they should probably just be quiet because that group probably knows whats best. If someone did studies on females and males, and found out that males more often than females scored better on math tests, if I were on a forum about math problems, I wouldn't tell the females that when they are arguing, if more guys than girls were arguing a certain way, they should probably just give up and listen to the guys. That would look very sexist and it would be plain "wrong" in many ways. Posts like this honestly make the forum more unfriendly and accepting to new people. Yeah it makes the veterans feel all good inside because 90% of the people who post here probably post on a regular basis. So you've made most of the main people "warm inside" probably, which maybe is what you were going for. Maybe you were even pandoring towards these veterans, i dont know. Its a theory, but obviously only an opinion. You just seem to be under the mistaken belief that if you post this, maybe new people will curb their talk when the "pros" are talking. Which maybe is exactly what you want, I don't know. Me personally, I'd rather see some more thoughts and ideas on the forums even if they are doing it differently or "wrong". Your whole original post, and subsequent posts, give off a bad vibe of almost trying to define a special club, and happily getting the reactions out of some of those people, in my opinion. It sounds like to me you wanted to throw a warning out to the people "who just don't get it" to fall in line, but then also get all the interactions with the veterans about how you recognize them being an important part of the community. Mostly if a post was something I dont agree with or am not interested in, I'd just let it go and not say anything. But this one actually would have the possibility of swaying new people from posting because "they shouldn't argue with the veterans". They probably dont want to get jumped on if they have a differing opinion, especially by a community who recognizes post count and time spent as a status symbol. So a lot of times they'd be better off asking questions elsewhere where anyone can be part of an argument. The main good thing about this, is that by the experience I've seen lots of places, this thread will eventually be let knocked off the first page, no one will read it anymore, and people will still post arguments, even against the veterans, and everything will stay the same :p [/QUOTE]

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