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JWeinCom on 28 November 2015
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Ali_16x said:
JWeinCom said:
Ali_16x said:
JWeinCom said:
Thank you for letting us know. Not to be rude, but it seems like many of the things you're posting simply do not need their own thread.


Lol, you can say the exact thing for literally every opinion thread.

Nah not really.  Some opinions are more valuable than others.  For example, if your opinion is, "I believe the Wind Up Bird Chronicle illustrates a shift in Japanese attitudes towards ambition in the pre and post war era", that might be more worth discussing than an opinion like "I like Skittles".  

In this case, I don't think "this game looks complicated" warrants a topic, particularly with a popular game that has been discussed in several topics, and will likely have more topics devoted to it within the next two weeks as it releases.  This is combined with the fact that TC has been making a number of topics that are not particularly substantial.

It bothered me.  But hey, if nobody else is bothered, then I guess it's my problem.


Lol, you sound like you're contradicting yourself. You downplaying this guys thread because you didn't find it as valuable to what your standards are, you can LITERALLY say that for every every opinion thread. Your Wind Up Bird Chronicle thing, someone can easily say that his opinion is not needed because whatever he wrote is not valuable to his standards, that's literally how opinions work.


You sound like you don't know what contradicting means.  And your understanding of how opinions work may be fuzzy as well.

Opinions can be interesting or uninteresting, and can provide information, or not provide much information.   The opinion of the Wind Up Bird Chronicle (a great book) contains a good deal of information, and can lead to interesting conversations.  The opinion I like Skittles does not.  This is not my subjective opinion as the amount of information in each of those opinions is quantifiable.  If we had the time and inclination, we could absolutely come up with an accurate figure to convey how much information is contained within each of those. 

To further the objective of promoting interesting topics, most communites have rules.  It's why we lock certain topics, and don't lock others.  It's why we frown on posts that say "So and so game sucks" and encourage posts that say "element x of a game is flawed because..."  

If I made a topic titled "I like Hot dogs", then made a topic that said "Green is my favorite color", then made a topic that says "My Cat's breath smells bad", would you consider this a worthwhile addition to the site?  If I was banned for this (which I should be) would you rush to my defense saying, "These opinions are equally interesting and worthwhile as any other?"  I would hope not.

In the case of this topic, "I don't like this game cause there's lots of stuff in it" doesn't really convey much information, or lead anywhere.  It's an issue of pure preference, which is the least interesting class of opinions.   And this user has made several such topics in recent days.  

But, perhaps you think "I like Skittles" is a worthwhile and interesting topic to discuss.  If so, I hope we are never stuck together in a long car ride.