[quote=name:Hercanic]Dear Dapperdan: [quote=Dapperdan]In any case, you need to start seriously defending your position and not leaving this debate at a standstill or else the topic will end up closed.[/quote] Why would you give one person that much power over a thread when many others have contributed much more?[/quote] Well, for one it's his thread, and at the time at least, most of the argument was everyone else vs him. The point is that the discussion needs to move forward or it will end up closed.

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Dear Dapperdan:

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In any case, you need to start seriously defending your position and not leaving this debate at a standstill or else the topic will end up closed.

Why would you give one person that much power over a thread when many others have contributed much more?

Well, for one it's his thread, and at the time at least, most of the argument was everyone else vs him. The point is that the discussion needs to move forward or it will end up closed.

What ever happened to letting topics just seep to the bottom of the list?

What ever happened to letting topics just seep to the bottom of the list?

Dear Dapperdan: [quote=Dapperdan]Well, for one it's his thread,[/quote] Why count ownership of a thread by who starts it? Unless it is specifically about them, such as with a mod/map project. When a thread is an open discussion or debate, I feel ownership should belong to the community, as everyone has a hand in contributing to it, not just the person who happened to pose the first question. As for the direction of this debate, you are welcome to address trolling, but the way you phrased the issue puts the decision on NerdyTerdy. Meanwhile, JaBok presented his own argument. [line=100] Dear NerdyTerdy: Please don't misinterpret my above comments as labelling you as a troll. I don't consider you a troll. However, the result of consistently presenting extreme arguments and rebuttals in a debate without any support, even if it's due to you not having the time to properly develop the ideas, is an unintentional form of trolling.

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Well, for one it's his thread,

Why count ownership of a thread by who starts it? Unless it is specifically about them, such as with a mod/map project. When a thread is an open discussion or debate, I feel ownership should belong to the community, as everyone has a hand in contributing to it, not just the person who happened to pose the first question.

As for the direction of this debate, you are welcome to address trolling, but the way you phrased the issue puts the decision on NerdyTerdy. Meanwhile, JaBok presented his own argument.

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Dear NerdyTerdy:
Please don't misinterpret my above comments as labelling you as a troll. I don't consider you a troll. However, the result of consistently presenting extreme arguments and rebuttals in a debate without any support, even if it's due to you not having the time to properly develop the ideas, is an unintentional form of trolling.

But the very definition of trolling is that you ARE being intentional about it.

But the very definition of trolling is that you ARE being intentional about it.

[quote]As for the direction of this debate, you are welcome to address trolling, but the way you phrased the issue puts the decision on NerdyTerdy. Meanwhile, JaBok presented his own argument.[/quote] Jabok did that after the fact. I'm not dumb and I wasn't going to close it if other people started debating the other side, as Jabok did. It wasn't intended to be a remark that was taken so seriously. In any case, I don't want to discuss anymore of this in the thread. I'd prefer if you pm'd this type of stuff but no big deal.

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As for the direction of this debate, you are welcome to address trolling, but the way you phrased the issue puts the decision on NerdyTerdy. Meanwhile, JaBok presented his own argument.

Jabok did that after the fact. I'm not dumb and I wasn't going to close it if other people started debating the other side, as Jabok did. It wasn't intended to be a remark that was taken so seriously. In any case, I don't want to discuss anymore of this in the thread. I'd prefer if you pm'd this type of stuff but no big deal.