Quote from: SavageSchemer;1106588Says the ass clown that went cherry picking on TBP's least populous forum to prove his point. Yeah. Ok. We're done.

I know it's a radical concept around here...but you could try reading the actual post you originally replied to before launching into a range of juvenile tough guy obscenitiies.

Quote from: TJS;1106448Well...right now in their D20 forum the top thread is about "Zak has nothing to do with this book" which is political.  There's nothing clearly political about any other posts on that page, although other threads could verge into the political (same as here though)
In the tabletop open forum there's a thread about the Deadlands confederacy and something about pay in RPG industry.
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There I am - explicitly refering to the forum you've twice now said I didn't refer to.

Honestly.  Is it too much to ask people to read as far as the second sentence?  (Or act like a complete raging asshole at the same time)

Now let's see.  Are you enough of a big tough interent to admit you were wrong?

As for the rest.   I may have missed one or two political threads on the main forum.  It's easy to do.  But I also missed at least one here so...

The point still stands.  That there is proportionally more political talk here - at least more than twice as much even if we add the two extra threads you mentioned..  No I didn't mention mention Tangency - but then I also didn't mention the Pundit's forum.  I would think the reason for that should be obvious if you stop think about it.

You also seem to suggest that Rpgnet would have a higher proportion of political threads if only they weren't being chased off the main page by gaming threads...well...yes?

Now whether that's a good thing or a bad thing or a problem or whatever, I'm happy to leave for other people to decide.

But it is a thing.

So if you wanted a real reply there it is,  Don't expect another one unless you can muster a decent level of civility.

Quote from: mightybrain;1106587I think there's actually a lot of culture war content on TBP. What there isn't, is any discourse. All potential dissenters have long since been removed or have the sense to censor themselves. Any dissenting view there is more likely a misreading than a genuine disagreement.

There isn't any discourse.  There are dissenting views however - because they do keep banning people.

It seems to be like whackamole over there.

Quote from: TJS;1106592I know it's a radical concept around here...but you could try reading the actual post you originally replied to before launching into a range of juvenile tough guy obscenitiies.


There I am - explicitly refering to the forum you've twice now said I didn't refer to.

Honestly.  Is it too much to ask people to read as far as the second sentence?  (Or act like a complete raging asshole at the same time)

Now let's see.  Are you enough of a big tough interent to admit you were wrong?

As for the rest.   I may have missed one or two political threads on the main forum.  It's easy to do.  But I also missed at least one here so...

The point still stands.  That there is proportionally more political talk here - at least more than twice as much even if we add the two extra threads you mentioned..  No I didn't mention mention Tangency - but then I also didn't mention the Pundit's forum.  I would think the reason for that should be obvious if you stop think about it.

You also seem to suggest that Rpgnet would have a higher proportion of political threads if only they weren't being chased off the main page by gaming threads...well...yes?

Now whether that's a good thing or a bad thing or a problem or whatever, I'm happy to leave for other people to decide.

But it is a thing.

Where, precisely, in either post did I claim you didn't mention TRO? My claim is and has been that you're cherry picking to prove your point. Even if I acknowledge that you sort of point at one or two threads in the most hand-wavy way imaginable. The only thread you fully mentioned by title was the one in D20. I filled in a few threads you "overlooked" from TRO. Then went on to point out that if you add them all there's really no contest at all. And, yes, if we ignore Tagency (TBP's busiest forum, btw) then RPGsite does indeed have more threads that are explicitly political. I already acknowledged as much. It's also not the "not even close" landslide you've planted your flag on.

And my point about traffic driving topics off the front page - well it's not "gaming" topics that do that. It's any / all topics due to sheer volume they receive compared to this site. And quite frequently that's a brand-new ultra-woke talking point some snowflake at TRO needs to talk about. Had we been having this discussion just a few weeks earlier, TRO would have been so bad that you'd have seen an announcement from the mods there that they're putting a moratorium on political threads because their poor, delicate admins are so exhausted from waving that ban hammer so much. That's quite literally why the numbers stack the way they do right now.

But you know what? If you want to claim victory here you go right on ahead. My points still stand.

Quote from: Opaopajr;1106580OK, that was hilarious! D&D 4e as a new benchmark low is a riot. /flits about my AD&D 2e princess' & unicorns' secret garden

   I suspect Pundit's unholy masters will send him after that once he's finished cutting his teeth on 4E. I know Mike Mearls and Jonathan "Blood and Souls for My Lords Moloch and Astarte!" Tweet dislike it.