Recent content by slidebone

Remember to shave your asshole. Trust me. ;)

Still love Stairway. Not bothered.

+1. Only the Raptors could fuck up losing. Masai guarantees we won't end up in the middle, and what do you know? Smack dab in the middle and too late to go anywhere else. I think this has to count as a big "strike one" for him as GM.

I doubt I will post a similar poll in the future, but I'd definitely wait a while if I ever got that idea again: I'd think at least six months. As for polling format, within the limits of what terb allows, I think that's probably the best that I can do and still get a sense of terb opinion...

In retrospect, I would also include a category "Yes, I have even contributed to the IP threads." Whether that would be a "positive" option would depend on your point of view.

This response is an improvement from what you have given me so far and in all honesty I think this post might actually be the basis for discussion, without scare quotes, as it seems you are at least giving some serious consideration to what I'm trying to say. Thank you. However, I think...

You have a bizarrely limited idea of what an opinion poll is. You earlier suggested instead of my poll, a poll that simply would ask whether people read the IP threads, like this: "(a) Never (b) Rarely (c) Sometimes (d) Often (e) Frequently". This method obviously doesn't ask their attitudes...

Again and again, straw-men. I claimed that the IP threads are unnecessary and useless to discovering information. That is my argument. I've said it again and again. You've simply thrown in some over-broad terms that I never wrote in order to make my argument easier to knock down. If you...

It's perfectly legitimate to ask people their attitude towards something in a poll, ranging from very favourable opinions to very hostile opinions. These are called "opinion polls". It's absurd that you suggest there is anything wrong with this. As it was an opinion poll, I provided a range...

Your objection makes no sense. In no way is not knowing about "Deir Yassin" an impediment to researching Israel-Palestine history. If people hear about specific topics by name, like Deir Yassin, they can just google them by name. You can even spell it wrong and you will find it right away...

An objective comparison would be to look at how many people vote in other polls in the Lounge compared to mine. You have chosen other criteria that obfuscate. Also, considering your frequent use of polls, your entire line of argument reeks of desperation and hypocrisy. My poll received an...

Indeed it does. Thanks for the reply! It's nice to have an impartial and honest answer.

I'm just not convinced. It seems so much easier, if someone wants to find some answers, to just do a google search or look on Wikipedia right from the beginning, rather than to first waste time sorting through page after page of IP threads full of name calling and figuring out who a bunch of...

I honestly don't even think you read all the way through what I wrote before you started posting. It seems like you read the first four paragraphs, and then flew into a rage and started typing away. This is obvious because you quote my early paragraphs but that's not where my main arguments...

I don't tell them they shouldn't do it. I've said this repeatedly. I tell them it's futile, only if they believe they are providing a public service of some kind or if they believe it is anything much more than a mental exercise. Oh, and simply apply the rule "The more you post, the more...