You didn't answer the question. What part of someone posting "Too... much... stupid... to handle... *faints*" in response to someone explaining why they think GT6 and FM5 got their respective review scores passes the muster for you to justify a like on your part when mister_dog's posts were apparently so unacceptably disrespectful that it warranted instead an increasingly angry rant talking about how in the wrong he was?
Because it was just shouting out stuff without any real arguments. But moreover, it was a thread about 'News and Disussion', not another 'Let's bash other games solely because I prefer another game and I therefore have the itchy feeling to let everyone know as much as possible how bad their prefered game is compared to mine' thread. So you see, when that occurs, I'm taking the easy way of liking that message, which is indeed also immature and surely, also incorrect. But why? Because:
- I'm not into wasting my time again on such one-liners without any decent foundation at all. Should I? Maybe so in a sense of morally doing the right thing, but I didn't feel like it because, well...see the points below.
- The thread is not even the place to discuss that.
- This 'rivalry' of defending one game and therefore hating on the 'other game' is getting ridiculous lately, so I'm just staying away from it.
The thing is, I've never even had the urge to go onto forums on purpose to talk thrash about other games and jump through countless hoops just to out-argue anyone and be superior...or whatever the incentive might be of doing so. And I have the feeling that this does happen, especially from certain users. Sure, everyone must be critical and can complain about it to make the game better, but complaining in a topic that is not appropriate for it, doing it whenever is possible, as much as possible and as incorrectly as possible by choosing words in a provocative way is well....a bit sad and takes the fun out of reading the forums, to be honest. Does it help to argue it with them as correctly as possible? I tried to, but to no avail, especially when certain members are throwing in insults (explicitely with namecalling like 'fanboy' and implicitely by laughing at me). Then I'm done with it; do I really need to justify all of this? We can elaborate days about why I'm not the most correct either now and picking this one example, but why ignore mister dog's posts? Or
this post you mentioned? What are your feelings about those supernegative posts that have such a provocative edge and have all the odds of being more about the rivalry than just putting the negative things down in a correct manner? I'm really interested in what you feel about it, and I'm not even joking. Is it really something to be encouraged? I mean, is it really necessary to state the situation like this, while in a literal manner, this is just pertinently untrue?
Anything that is in the game is half-assed or glitched to death
Seems to me like this is just an attempt to be a jerk.
But I'm wondering why you're picking this sole example, since it must be one of the more extreme cases. I'm sure you know all of the reasons I mention here already.
And oh yeah, the things that jimipitbull has been saying are maybe not the most correct either, but maybe it's just an attempt to mimic the 'quality of posts' of mister dog. To be encouraged? Not really, but some people will not learn at all to properly listen and keep it respectful, so....I'll just leave this in the middle.
First of all, I wasn't specific about whose posts he was promoting for the exact reason that I stated: he's not specific beyond "does it look like something positive."
More importantly, to divide people into two camps would require that the person in question wasn't already firmly entrenched in a single camp to the extent that actual facts are secondary in importance to whether people say something agreeable. Pointing that out divides people no more than if he was to actually post.
Come on, this answer is something that politicians are notorious for. This is exactly what you were implying to...if it was just a simple observation, it would serve absolutely no use to mention it at all other than stirring things up.
Edit: you mention it was for bemusement and then I'm all fine with it, of course. But not everyone is as 'smart' to recognize this and you know that the majority (guessing here) are going to take this seriously. Because no one is unbiased. My own observation that some people generally only 'like' a post when it's either negative or positive underlines this. Because no one is unbiased. And that brings me to a previous point again: the underlying 'rivalry' of defending a game or one's thoughts...I think it's getting out of hand, but maybe that's just me. And I think such a remark will only make it worse, even if it was not intended so at all.
I was simply saying that you're taking it too seriously. Just enjoy what you get in the game. But if you bought a car that was extremely flawed, you wouldn't just complain at the person you bought it off day after day. You would either deal with it, or sell it on and get a new car. See what I'm getting at here?
