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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7808492" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Here's the thing though. At least in my opinion. Often, when someone says, "I spoke to direct parties", I tend to give some extra credibility to them. Largely because it's more than I have.</p><p></p><p>However...</p><p></p><p>When the same person resorts to ad hominem attacks, making comments that anyone who disagrees is blinded by their diefication of Gygax without any sort of evidence, calls Gary a liar who refused to give credit not only when there was no evidence, but the evidence showed otherwise, then that person loses that benefit of the doubt and credibility. In my eyes anyway. It also just doesn't pass the basic logic test (back to my original question that was never answered)</p><p></p><p>So if there's a lesson learned here Yaarel, if you want people to give credibility to your anecdotal evidence, you might want to avoid character assassination of the subject, ad hominems, and baseless accusations. And answer questions presented to you to clarify what appear to be contradictory positions you're holding.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it's just me though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7808492, member: 15700"] Here's the thing though. At least in my opinion. Often, when someone says, "I spoke to direct parties", I tend to give some extra credibility to them. Largely because it's more than I have. However... When the same person resorts to ad hominem attacks, making comments that anyone who disagrees is blinded by their diefication of Gygax without any sort of evidence, calls Gary a liar who refused to give credit not only when there was no evidence, but the evidence showed otherwise, then that person loses that benefit of the doubt and credibility. In my eyes anyway. It also just doesn't pass the basic logic test (back to my original question that was never answered) So if there's a lesson learned here Yaarel, if you want people to give credibility to your anecdotal evidence, you might want to avoid character assassination of the subject, ad hominems, and baseless accusations. And answer questions presented to you to clarify what appear to be contradictory positions you're holding. Maybe it's just me though. [/QUOTE]
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