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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7048647" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Definitely seems like it. Which is odd, considering I've made a single observation that I thought was pretty clear *shrug* Guess I dropped the ball on that one.There are a few possible ways. Here's two:1) When bringing the phrase "edition war" to the conversation makes what would otherwise read like a normal difference of opinion or continuation of discussion into something that reads like an implied accusation of condoning or attempting to start an edition war (which is what seems to happen most of the times I've seen someone bring up the edition war on this forum).2) When it's genuinely irrelevant. If I say "I believe should devote resources to housing the homeless." I've completely covered the point. If I shoe-horn in mentioning that I was homeless for a while, it doesn't add anything at all to my actual point. It might, though, cause a reader to get distracted from my point by wondering why I mentioned something seemingly superfluous, or to even assume that I'm trying to make the situation about me (which is what happens to the rest of the times I've seen someone bring up the edition war on this forum - it diverts whatever discussion was actually going on into a discussion of whether X is or isn't edition warring).As a hopeful end to this particular branch of the discussion, I have a final thought and then I'm done with the topic of the edition war in this thread (because I'm going to Godwin myself on purpose): bringing up the edition war while taking about 5th edition feels, to me, a lot like a gaming-specific version of comparing someone/something to Hitler during other topics of conversation/discussion/debate.I have a single thought on this sub-topic as well; A rift has two sides, and it closes a whole lot easier if both move. I've seen evidence of the WotC side of the rift moving. I've also seen fans that seem to feel like their on the other side of the rift appearing to refuse to move even an inch.</blockquote>

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