The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Snarf Zagyg]

No, I quite accurately have fun with verbal back and forth. I have zero expectation that I will or even can "convince" anybody of anything.

What?

You aren't dreaming of converting me to the Dark Side of New Zealand Pizza Toppings?????


Didn't you know that I have no free will of my own, but I am only subject to the vagaries and whims of internet arguments and/or the marketing departments of Fortune 500 corporations?

 

[Parmandur]

What?

You aren't dreaming of converting me to the Dark Side of New Zealand Pizza Toppings?????


Didn't you know that I have no free will of my own, but I am only subject to the vagaries and whims of internet arguments and/or the marketing departments of Fortune 500 corporations?

Arguments basically never convince anyone of anything: their main value, other than diversion whilst using the facilities, is for the interlocutor to sharpen their ideas by testing then. I argue for my own growth and increase in knowledge, not someone elses.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Arguments basically never convince anyone of anything: their main value, other than diversion whilst using the facilities, is for the interlocutor to sharpen their ideas by testing then. I argue for my own growth and increase in knowledge, not someone elses.

I find that it is best to avoid arguments; they are always aggravating, and even worse, they might sometimes be convincing.

 

[Cadence]

I find that it is best to avoid arguments; they are always aggravating, and even worse, they might sometimes be convincing.

So... I'm reading that as their being hope to convince you of the merits of tuna and pineapple pizza?

 

[Parmandur]

I find that it is best to avoid arguments; they are always aggravating, and even worse, they might sometimes be convincing.

Partly depends on you define "argument."

 

[payn]

Partly depends on you define "argument."

Oh, you are so sneaky...

 

[Cadence]

When I google: argument pizza
there is a lot about pineapple on there...

(putting quotes around goes to a very different thing I wasn't expecting)

 

[Guest 7034872]

I note with sympathy what Umbran says about how joyless it is to moderate the posts of grown men and women who enjoy being argumentative and some few who insist on always, always Being Right, but I feel honor-bound to defend this much about even our most pedantic and/or combative debaters: over the last few months, I've learned a lot just from reading all the back-and-forth. Yes, some of it does get needlessly prickly, but as a relative newbie, I'm still learning a lot.

Moderating the internet forum squabbles, nit-picking, and flame wars is emotionally draining, though--you have my unequivocal sympathy there, Umbran.

 

[Parmandur]

I note with sympathy what Umbran says about how joyless it is to moderate the posts of grown men and women who enjoy being argumentative and some few who insist on always, always Being Right, but I feel honor-bound to defend this much about even our most pedantic and/or combative debaters: over the last few months, I've learned a lot just from reading all the back-and-forth. Yes, some of it does get needlessly prickly, but as a relative newbie, I'm still learning a lot.

Moderating the internet forum squabbles, nit-picking, and flame wars is emotionally draining, though--you have my unequivocal sympathy there, Umbran.

I have also taken advantage of the Ignore function, so the really absurd arguments lately have, for me, become one group of people repeating true statements for no discernable reason.

 

[darjr]

There are HUnDREDs of them! It’s like having an elementary schools entire student population of several states as all my bosses simultaneously.