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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 8944479" data-attributes="member: 57112">I can appreciate where the two of you are coming from, from a higher level philosophical standpoint. From a practical standpoint? No, really, not all opinions have value, and if a person is starting a conversation in a thread on this forum, they get to set the parameters of the conversation, and that is a very, very, good thing. It keeps the conversation on track, and keeps it from getting derailed by people who will specifically and in bad faith insist their opinions be debated. Sealioning is a significant problem in any online forum (and I mean forum as in any space for conversation, not specifically just message boards) and there is no better practical solution that allowing for and enforcing thread parameters.Using my example from the top of the thread, if I'm looking for advice on how to make adjustments to Curse of Strahd that I don't like and know my players won't like because they don't jive super well with our values, the absolute last thing I want is for that thread to be bogged down by countless posts from people telling me not to change things and that me and my players are too sensitive and to find something else to run and I'm sorry but none of those opinions were at all helpful or valuable and they ended up derailing and getting the thread locked before I was able to get any actual helpful advice. Restarting the thread with a (+) made the situation much better and in the end I was able to get a lot of incredibly great advice because I was able to set the parameters of the conversation.(+) threads are incredibly positive and helpful and I have plenty of first-hand experience as to why.</blockquote>

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