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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 7335652" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Where I come in on this is as follows:1) I write a (what should be) completely non-contentious 7 statements that basically just aggregate what 3-4 advocating posters have conveyed (in a few cases, word for word regurgitation or even throttling back the rhetoric; eg GM IS GOD/MY GAME to “its the GMs game/table).Those aggregated statements are profoundly over-represented on ENWorld these days (the evidence for that is overwhelming) so I call it “collective” (do we really need to haggle over collective versus majority versus consensus?).2) I write 2 more statements that I caveat as much more contentious and likely/possibly not majority held (They get disputed nearly as much as the get affirmed it seems). 3) I get called out for extremism, middle-excluding, over-generalizing...so basically my intellectual integrity challenged.4) Meanwhile, the same user basically restates/accidentally affirms what I write in those 7 in subsequent answers (!)...fails to acknowledge what has been said by advocates in this thread (much more aggressively in this thread, before, during, and after that exchange)...while simultaneously obfuscating discussion and bogging it down with needless haggling over classification (back to 1).Oh, and calls me out after I publicly (on purpose obviously) praise pemerton for not being a jerk even though a specific (different) user was being a terrific one to him while offering precisely 0 substance to the conversation (trolling)!That is about the score of it as I can see it. I’m more than fine with minutae and nuance of opinion. I love it. Let’s analyze and break down GMing techniques/play priorities/rule paradigms all day long in deep nuance.I’m not ok with the afformentioned exchange because it pollutes the technical breakdown signal, because I work very hard on my integrity, and because my time is limited (so I don’t want to have to waste time on non gaming stuff).</blockquote>

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