Actually, I can imagine any number of ways you might have responded to that question. Is it OK with you that I pretend you said something funny?
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Actually, I can imagine any number of ways you might have responded to that question. Is it OK with you that I pretend you said something funny?
Absolutely not.
The same views being presented over and over again ad nauseum is neither beautiful nor interesting and just results in endless rehashes of the same discussions with nothing being learned by anyone. I know you find fun in indulging in your version of Pavolov's Dogs, but the stimulus-response type predictability of these exchanges makes them pointless, IMO.
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Then what makes you think posts motivated by fanboyism, per my suggested definition, promote discussion more than they harm it on this forum? And if that's not your argument, what is?
No its not.
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Are you suggesting you see consoles as art? Not the games, but the console? Because the worst fanboy crap I see is about someone's choice of console, not the games that they chose to play. I do not consider my console (of TV, computer, microwave of mobile phone) as art. Some people do but it's not a very widely held view that consumer products are art; they may be well designed but their purpose to function, not to generate emotion and that's a key factor for what most societies classify as art.
But there seem to be a lot of people conflating fanboy behaviour and emotion. These are not the same thing.
You can’t really separate the two as they are inextricably linked.
No, it's not.
Does it smell like teen spirit or like what The Rock is cooking?
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In a debate or intelligent discussions having constructive opposing viewpoints can be good, but what realistically can be considered a constructive opposing view in a "PreRelease News and Rumor" thread?
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I was being sarcastic with my fictional disagreement
I was being sarcastic with my fictional disagreement
I know. I was also sarcastic/cheeky in my original response to MrFox and the first 2 parts of my response to you. I hypertexted it to be a little bit clearer.
Then I thought maybe I should try to contribute something less sarcastic to the discussion.
oh ok
You are drifting into an extreme definition of fanboy. Disagreements are perceived as hostile based of your platform of choice. That was bunge argument I think. The perception of what is promoting discussion ,or not, is also tainted.
Your distinction of positive vs negative is what I disagree about. That's a recipe for starting a high brow official technical spec discussion about xbox with 10TF and a slim the size of an apple tv. And the negative posts are the fanboys saying it's a ludicrous source and impossible specs.
If I take your extreme example of repeating the same thing over and over, that would equally apply to those repeating false things that are positive, or true things that are negative. In that case, the negative ones are beautiful, and the positive are ugly. Regardless of assumed motives.
A positive feedback loop is dangerous. A fair amount of negative comments create a negative feedback loop so it's a stable system, fanboys stabilize the universe. They are the heros we need.
All lead by the charismatic MrFox?
A force to be reckoned with.
I make a distinction between those with a disproportionately positive view with tolerance for disagreement and those with a disproportionately positive view with no tolerance for disagreement.
I'm certainly not advocating for a positive feedback loop. The ability to give and receive criticism is vital. What I do strongly disagree with is the notion that solely negative viewpoints act in any way to balance out solely positive ones. When combined all you get is a bigger pile of unbalanced viewpoints.
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