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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5896844" data-attributes="member: 22779">Look, I'll pony up and say that I've been guilty of being too strenuous in my defense of a point to the point of being stupid about it.  I'll cop to that.  Tends to happen when I start getting fifteen pages into a thread and I've dived so far down the rabbit hole of rhetoric that I've pretty much lost all grasp of what the thread was originally about.However, that being said, it's pretty rare for there to be any bias in either direction.  When I get a bit too... energetic, let's say, in my *ahem* *erm* discussions, the mods are pretty quick to give me a good poking with the stick of authority.  The idea that anyone here has a free ride to fling the midden at any edition is ignoring a lot of what happens here.However, this point: is probably true for a very good reason.  If someone has actually taken the time to discuss specifics of an edition, they're likely not just chucking the poo at that edition but rather trying to engage in an examination of specific mechanics.IOW, if your criticisms are contained to specific elements, then you can likely get away with saying something like, "4e healing surges suck" or whatever.  However, if you start broadsiding with things like, "Your edition only lasted 2 years, it sucks so we should chuck everything in it", then you likely are simply engaging in edition bashing.</blockquote>