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Thread Derailing 101
In the last several years, a disturbing trend has emerged in the threads in this sub-forum. Namely, nearly every one of them gets derailed at some point. Users will inevitably jump in on the discussion, ability to contribute be damned.
Why is this? Is it a characteristic of our psyches? Are people that bored? What makes it entertaining to do? These questions and more will be the focus of this thread. What do you think? |
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I think people just want to have their opinion heard, even if they don't understand what is being discussed. It could have something to do with wanting to seem intelligent or witty. Or they could just want to increase their post count.
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But this begs the question. Of what value is post count? Is there some reason they would want to appear intelligent or witty to random strangers? What is the base motivation here?
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I think users see a high post count as a sign of seniority. Wisdom is implied by seniority although I'm not sure seniority itself gives anyone any more insight. The whole concept of seniority should be met with skepticism.
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Hmm... An interesting point. It's always interested me how seniority is treated almost universally as a virtue. Yes, it is common sense that you will accumulate knowledge with age, but is that really the case? It seems that several people choose instead to squander their time and, in fact, many younger people surpass the wisdom of their elders. It's a somewhat disturbing trend, at least in the United States, and one that bears looking into. Why wouldn't people be continuing to try and accumulate knowledge? Is sloth that powerful of a force in our nature?
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When you say derailment do you mean a digression away from the core topic or a complete load of bullshit being thrown in?
Because Digression is merely a natural flow of debate to reach the ultimate conclusion. Debate, in order to be more effective, must be anarchic in nature, and not follow a rigid structure or topic, but rather be able to look at other points related to the topic at hand though a chain of relations to ultimately reach a conclusion. However, this can completely derail into a different argument, but I believe that is only good if it was achieved through natural flow. TL;DR Its part of the nature of debate and flow of discussion. |
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No, if we are to deal with these kind of social issues, this slothful attitude can't be tolerated. |
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I find it offensive that you find my lack of education disturbing.
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I find your lack of education that of a stray cat!
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Y R U IGNRIN ME KILLSHTE I TOTTES POSTED BEFORE YOU PY ATENTION 2 MEEE
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Well, we could start instituting a system wherein people get hired based on their certified level of performance. This would solve a lot of the unemployment issues plaguing our country. |
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WHY DO YOU HATE CATS SO MUCH GIVE A STRAY A HOME
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Do you feel your upbringing has instilled a bias in you against felines, then?
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Do you feel your upbringing has instilled a bias in you in favor of felines, then? |
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Stray cats are a serious problem. They kill the native bird species and have no natural predators.
But where are the jobs going to come from in the first place? |
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Well, a lot of jobs will be created simply by having people to evaluate our cumulative population. Last edited by Zairak; 02-19-2013 at 09:04 PM. |
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And what do we do with the people who can't pass the tests? Throw them on the street? We have too many homeless people as it is.
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Domesticated cats already have destroyed the natural progression of evolution. Cat populations are artificially bolstered by humans. We have increased their fitness to unnaturally high levels.
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I for one welcome our new feline overlords.
As should you all, for the remowvolution is neigh. |
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But that's an incredibly large assumption for you to make. Who are you to say what the natural progression of evolution is? We are not outside its reach, you know. Our own natural actions, and their consequences, can easily be categorized as a consequence of evolution itself. Perhaps we should simply welcome our feline overlords. |
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i like chicken
i like liver meowmix meowmix please....deliver us from evil, and lead us not into temptation and forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors and give us this day our daily meowmix, your will be done hallowed be your name, meowmaster amen to one and all |
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In fact, the only way I could see us being 'unnatural' would be the acceptance that there is a diety at work and, the last time I checked, you were an atheist. Finally, I feel that our world would be much greater were there spiders around. Eventually, a special breed of spider would emerge as dominant and the rest of nature would adapt to it. It's all perfectly natural. |
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yes. yes i can pictured, the meowmaster and its minions. not pictured: the mountain of skulls they are posing on. |
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By the way, by your definition, the existence of said deity would make it part of the natural world and would therefor not be unnatural. Also, a special breed of spider just sounds ridiculous. What are you proposing, some sort of man-spider? |
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