I’m glad there’s a sane moderator in all this, thank you. I mean that, I’m not being snarky.
I mostly stayed out of the controversy with you yesterday. You started out kind of reasonable. Other people were sort of dicks, yes, but you kind of managed to top them all and subjected yourself to the same kind of uncritical thinking you were condemning. But I know how these things escalate and I’ve done the same, hence my staying out.
The thing is I very rarely actually defend the PT, or the SE. On the contrary I regularly agree with a lot of the negativity surrounding them to some extent, but the fact that you cannot say anything positive about them without having five people reign down on you about how “wrong” you are and refusing any sort of actual debate just gets tiring and frustrating after a while.
I have some positive things to say about both as well. I would have more for the SE if the OOT were not suppressed from release. I don’t generally discuss those things here. Part of that is just about knowing a community and what topics can result in valuable discussion vs. not. You might not get valuable discussion about the SE here if you defend aspects. You will more likely get an argument (same as PT/SE critique on other sites). So, expect that unless your goal is just to go down fighting. The site isn’t perfect or unbiased, but it’s quite functional for its actual goals.
I know I’ve been unreasonable and probably should have thought longer before posting some of my remarks (which is usually why I end up editing them).
I wouldn’t care about Frinks remarks if it wasn’t so hypocritical.
You cannot sit there insulting people and then cry when someone insults you. It’s immature and while yeah, insulting someone is never good regardless, how can you expect to be taken seriously when it’s “one rule for me, another for you”?
If you’ve been lurking since 2010, you might have noticed that there are a few topics that will rile him up. But there’s one specific word that is the doomsday button. You either missed that topic or pressed the button.