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Originally Posted by Croco
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If you want to deflect and change the conversation that's fine but I'm not choosing to speak to the trolls and I don't believe there is a dependency between speaking to you about changing your methods and speaking to the trolls about their trolling. You could say that correlation is not causation, and you'd be right. Obviously just because you post things and people troll you does not mean you are causing the trolling. But I believe there is a preponderance of evidence that shows it's more likely than not that when you post, because of how you speak/debate/argue, trolls come after you in a way that they do not come after other people.
I do not believe I'm ignoring the more obvious problem. You are free to disagree with me about that, but that is not my belief. I believe based on the overwhelming evidence of how often you are targeted and trolled that there is something unique to you that is attracting the trolls to come engage you. I don't believe that uniqueness is a positive thing because I have seen dozens of non-trolls get incredibly frustrated with you to the point of not wanting to engage. If every conversation you engage in ends up devolving this way but you observe plenty of other conversations that you are not a part of on these very forums that do not devolve this way I think it's fairly obvious what the common denominator is. I have even seen plenty of the people trolling you in this thread be completely reasonable and able to converse in a normal and civil manner in other threads with other people.
The "assumption", as you put it, that I'm making about the way you think isn't made flippantly or at random. It's made after a critical examination of literally hundreds of forum posts you've made. The data converges in a very specific way. I don't think you're able to look at yourself in the same critical manner that you subject others to. I think if you put up a poll on the forums (and reject the people you consider trolls from the data) you would find people agree with me about your thought process. It is very rigid and very binary. You have a hard time thinking outside the box of the "DATA/NUMBERS" to other reasons or causes for things. You very much seem obsessed with making every argument quantifiable with Mathmatics and that is not always how the world works.
Even in the world of video games and within the framework they present. You still have the human element and that can't always be expressed as a set of equations or simple numerical data. You constantly refuse to engage with peoples questions or ideas if they don't first jump through a series of hoops that you lay out. It's not a requirement of rigorous debate for people to do their own testing and present their own data before being able to speak on yours. You very often hold that up as a shield to block any and all criticism of the things you post, and that is a very intellectually dishonest way to debate and engage with people.
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What behavior do you believe to be better?
1. Posting strawmen, false information, and gifs in an attempt to undermine a debate partner?
2. Posting evidence to back up your position?
The question is really that simple. People have different personalities. Sometimes personalities conflict, there is no inherit problem with that. Your assessment of my personality is a complete fabrication, but I cannot stop you from believing false information. I'd ask you to provide evidence to show where you got your ideas about me, but I will not hold my breath.
You are actively supporting the first behavior by choosing to ignore the trolls and go after people being trolled.
Actions speak louder than words. You can choose to believe you are trying to help here, but you are not. I am amazed you think you can sound sincere when your signature is "Please be warned when trying to take advice from DSM". You are telling the entire forum that you will attack anybody who disagrees with you via any method possible with a signature like that. It is beyond petty.