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Aeolus451 on 12 June 2017
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vivster said:
Aeolus451 said:
I'll agree on that the standard on thread quality or level of effort put into a thread should be increased. I don't care for article threads where the op doesn't state any opinion on the article. They also don't post in their threads anymore.

I disagree about the threads that are loosely within the rules should be punished or taken down because it annoys people or they want to be rid of eye sores. So 4, 5 and 6 are blah. I don't like it when people get all authoritarian with things that are subjective.

Common sense is not negotionable. People today hide too much behind their opinions as if every opinion is as valid as any other. News flash, it is not. You can have an opinion but you should not demand your opnion to be equal to well founded arguments when it cannot be backed up by facts. That's why it's perfectly fine to remove badly thought out statements.

You are free to come back with a more founded opinion. Even our resident hardcore Christian learned from his past mistakes.

Common sense is subjective. "Well founded arguements" is subjective. 

On the flip side of that, you can't demand that a thread be locked because you disagree with the op or the posters in it when it doesn't break any rules. Because it is in your opinion that whatever was said isn't common sense. You're not talking about the obvious threads where everyone would agree on it. You're talking about the threads that are not breaking any rules but many people disagree with the op or other posters in the thread. 98% of the threads and posts are opinion unless they talk a bit about numbers that are based on guessimation. We're not a political forum where everyone tries to source everything to back it up their claims. So don't try playing the fact card.  

You're talking about broadening the net of mods so that they can moderate anyone or any thread in the murky area. Nope. What's bad or good is subjective in the murkiness. Do you really want mods going around closing threads and banning people for something that's not clearly defined in the rules but left entirely up to their opinion? With your own way of thinking, a mod could look at this thread and decide it's not well put enough together so he's just gonna close it. If you kept posting similar threads, he'd have grounds to ban you over it. 

I've seen this sort of thread posted every month or so about the same thing. Was double posting worth mentioning? No. People know that the site is buggy and shit happens.

If 4, 5 and 6 were a good idea to go after in the way you want, they would have already done it considering how many times some have brought it up.  They already have a system to deal with it but it takes them time to do.