Dark Urizen
The Evanghelist
Originally posted by Lucid Lui
It happens everywhere. Forums go through cycles. This is a cycle of crap. Eventually there'll be a surge in thought out, interesting and great debates. Then there'll be a surge of complete crap or mediocre debates.Just got to hope there's a few hidden gems mixed in with all the re-hashes and crap.
Yeah, well, that's still not a very pretty picture being drawn out. Things are definitely worse than they were, so i think i'm seeing your point. Even so, however, i'm afraid the community will reach a point of saturation soon.
Originally posted by Scoobless
yup.... you just get sick of the constant fanboy comments.... then when a decent thread with a decent and semi-original concept does come up, Golem and co create so many spam threads that it gets pushed straight to the second page and is forgotten about
Absolutely. And even golem has a few decent threads, but the onslaught of the rest of the threads, which have already been done, but anyway, push those good ones to not just the second or third page, but way way back.
Originally posted by Fishy 500
🙁The place is beyond repair .... Just prevent them from ****ing up this place !
Certain members who have already been mentioned, shouldn't be aloud to create threads on this part of the forum, IMO !
A bit elitist i know, 🙁 🙁
That wouldn't be necessary if they had some proper education, and some good sense. I mean, seriously, when everybody who's known and respected tells you that you're doing something wrong, maybe you should actually believe them......I blame education at home.
Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
I think the answer is being selective, I was accused of bringing false evidence to the table today when I quoted Verbatum from the handbook ❌ 🙂
Alright, but you could have been selective (which i'm sure you weren't). In my specific case however, i made SURE that i cannot be accused of having been selective when it came to the proof i would present. So there really is no excuse for accusing me of something like that.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
Any member who has been here long enough can point to at least 2-3 GREAT debates they've been in...and a lot of mindless ones. This site is great for comic info and occasionally good debates, but it's an unfortunate truth that one can't expect great battle-debates terribly often.Just treasure the important stuff you get out of it...and ignore the rest. And fight the fanboy-ism if you must, but everyone succumbs to despair every now and then, so don't feel too bad.
Yeah Digi, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. And i'm afraid that when school starts, the decline will be even nastier.
Originally posted by Mindship
Not so much in the comic threads but more in the general forum, I've noticed this trend: you go through the effort of presenting an intelligent point of view (well, at least I think I'm being intelligent 😮 ), then expecting a reasonably intelligent response...and I get nothing. The posts that follow read as if I had posted nothing at all (h'mm, did I just set myself up...?)In all fairness, I think the following has to be taken into consideration, and I mean no offense by the following, but the fact is, we have a fairly wide age range here in the forum (most being under 20), and people are generally gonna "debate" with what they can grasp and on a level commensurate with their general (physical and/or mental) age and with people of like age/interests.
I know that sometimes the stuff I post can be very technical/wordy/cerebral, and if no one responds to it the way I would like, I don't necessarily see it as their being rude or stupid. Perhaps at times debates would ensue if I, personally, used plain English more.
It really doesn't matter what the manner of getting your point across is. They won't understand common logic, that's the issue. I'm sure there are some that just don't understand what you're trying to say due to the elevated vocabulary you use, but even so, even if you were to use day to day speach, it still wouldn't do any good.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
^^ Indeed.Speaking of good debating...
Not sure how long you've been around DU, but they're starting a new tourney over in the vs. forum. There's always great debates in those matches....and they rarely get into fanboyism and shouting matches (though sometimes the early rounds succumb to that occasionally). Ever since I was in a tourney almost a year ago they've been my favorite part of the vs. forum...and help us remember how to actually debate and counter-debate points made by an opposition.
-DM
I know Digi, i already signed up to be a judge. I'm only sorry i can't be a judge in every match though, since Dizzle says we'll be rotating and such.
Originally posted by Sir Whirlysplat
DU was Wickerman Digi, He's been around some time!
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Originally posted by demigawd
That's why I usually spend my time on the cosmic threads. You can't be an immature fanboy and survive on those, so they usually stay out of those threads.Then again, they're sometimes prone to being taken over by ridiculous bickering wars between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumbass...we know who they are. 😄
Yeah, you're right, in the cosmic threads, there isn't usually anything they can do, because they realize how silly they'd look. So then why can't they realize the same thing when it comes to more mundane characters?