B/S/T Etiquette

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I have literally never been worked up on this site. You might want to try taking pleasure from something else, because judging someone's emotion over the internet is not for you.

Just because my view is often contrary to yours doens't mean I am taking a contrarian view. The irony is that most people in this thread have agreed with me.

The real question is with 24 of the 125 posts did you get your point across yet or will it take another 20 or so?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by bnorth

The real question is with 24 of the 125 posts did you get your point across yet or will it take another 20 or so?

Depends if anyone wants to continue discussing it. This is a discussion board, if I'm not mistaken.

I got my point across in the first post. Now I am just discussing a topic with fellow board members. Why is that a problem for you?

It's not like I'm just spamming replies. I'm only posting when others continue a discussion with me.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Depends if anyone wants to continue discussing it. This is a discussion board, if I'm not mistaken.

I got my point across in the first post. Now I am just discussing a topic with fellow board members. Why is that a problem for you?

It's not like I'm just spamming replies. I'm only posting when others continue a discussion with me.

For the record, I appreciate your responses and agree with almost all of them. (not that it matters much)

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Depends if anyone wants to continue discussing it. This is a discussion board, if I'm not mistaken.

I got my point across in the first post. Now I am just discussing a topic with fellow board members. Why is that a problem for you?

It's not like I'm just spamming replies. I'm only posting when others continue a discussion with me.

Not a problem at all, post all you like. Like another member I get great joy in reading these threads. When one to three people have most of the posts in a thread trying to convince each other they are correct by repeating the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over it makes me smile.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Not a problem at all, post all you like. Like another member I get great joy in reading these threads. When one to three people have most of the posts in a thread trying to convince each other they are correct by repeating the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over it makes me smile.

I don't believe any of us have been repeating the same thing over and over. As points are made, new nuance to the discussion is added. And those new points get discussed. It has nothing to do with convincing anyone of anything. It's just discussing a topic. I find it comical how many people shy away from any lengthy discussion mistaking it for something it isn't. If you aren't willing to engage those with different points of view, you'll never learn.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I don't believe any of us have been repeating the same thing over and over. As points are made, new nuance to the discussion is added. And those new points get discussed. It has nothing to do with convincing anyone of anything. It's just discussing a topic. I find it comical how many people shy away from any lengthy discussion mistaking it for something it isn't. If you aren't willing to engage those with different points of view, you'll never learn.

What I have never understood (and this is nothing new here at all), is why people who aren't interested in a particular discussion just don't move on, but instead snipe at and sometimes mock the more active participants (as if THEY were somehow superior and above it all), criticize the number of posts, and completely mischaracterize the motives of the more active participants. As though they were being forced to read it.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

What I have never understood (and this is nothing new here at all), is why people who aren't interested in a particular discussion just don't move on, but instead snipe at and sometimes mock the more active participants (as if THEY were somehow superior and above it all), criticize the number of posts, and completely mischaracterize the motives of the more active participants. As though they were being forced to read it.

Agreed.

You and I have seen eye to eye twice today. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

j/k of course. I always enjoy our discussions.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Agreed.

You and I have seen eye to eye twice today. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

j/k of course. I always enjoy our discussions.

To me, having discussions with people who disagree, and having to articulate one's own views in response to other people's points, are how one learns. The world would be boring as hell if everyone agreed on everything. And yeah, the intolerance for discussion on a discussion board is just baffling.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by bnorth

The real question is with 24 of the 125 posts did you get your point across yet or will it take another 20 or so?

Said 10,470 to 408.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Mark17

Said 10,470 to 408.

Mark I have never claimed any of my 2.46 posts a day are anything special.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Mark I have never claimed any of my 2.46 posts a day are anything special.

Ben, I appreciate every one of your posts. Just tweaking you for saying the other guy was posting too often.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Mark17

Said 10,470 to 408.

Man…I gotta find a way to catch up!

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by raulus

Man…I gotta find a way to catch up!

Just become more argumentative and you can post endlessly...

(And for the record, this is not a dig at BNorth, who has never seemed argumentative to me.)