Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 15:50:25 05/12/02
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On May 12, 2002 at 11:15:00, Albert Silver wrote: >I think that's a very narrow way of viewing the forum. Its purpose is to allow >pretty much any topic to be discussed as opposed to the rather exclusive >subjects here. Naturally, you'll see all kinds and types answering, but just as >here when you see empassioned posts declaring a program or programmer to be bunk >without any genuine argumentation, one is free to ignore it. > > Albert Part of the problem is that many of the people who initiate threads there hold an extreme view on their particular subject. Think about it. Is the person who has "middle of the road" views on most things (which is most people) going to start up threads attacking religion or attacking atheism or some race or nationality. It's mostly extremists on both ends arguing with the other. It's like religious debates about evolution between a Christian pastor and a science professor from a university who believes in evolution. Neither of them are going to convince the other of anything. Their views are set in stone before anything ever begins. It's the same thing in CTF. Pretty much everyone that reads and participates in it has views that are already set and aren't going to change a whole lot. So it's basically just like a couple of little 5 year olds in a yelling match IMO. Occasionally you get some legitimate posts from someone with a question about science or philosophy or something, but most of it is not this kind of stuff, and it's done in an attacking style, which just generates attacks in reply. I used to read and post some, and after a few weeks I realized that I was doing nothing but running in circles, posting the same things about religion every day, getting the same responses, and in the end I just ended up getting my feathers ruffled and it just made my day start off negative. So I stopped reading it. I think many others have a similar view of it, but maybe it's just me. Like most things in life, it can be used for good and bad, and it's not innately bad in itself, but...you know. Russell
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