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From: jon on 18 Jun 2010 11:33

"JSH" <jstevh(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jun 18, 4:37 am, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > On Jun 17, 8:29 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> >> JSH <jst...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
> >> > Usenet, or you can't argue.
>
> >> That's just not true.
>
> > Funny. But also telling. You have to take an opposite position or
> > arguing goes away.
>
> This is an insight not seen since Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch.

>Hey, I thought you were clever!

>And I DO like to pull the curtain away at times as I've done in the
>past, not like it matters.

>Years go by, I'm still posting for whatever reason suits me at the
>moment, and some posters start the same type insults as always, and
>the circle goes round and round and round.

>Some readers know most of it is just a game. And that a lot of posts
>ARE about entertainment value.

>But I think some are clueless! Which is also funny as well.

>It HAS to be a big show. It's a worldwide entertainment, and along
>with the math there has to be drama, conflict, excitement--or you lose
>readers.


>___JSH


So, You admit you are 100% troll.

Everyone already knew that.


From: Joshua Cranmer on 18 Jun 2010 17:39
On 06/17/2010 11:05 PM, JSH wrote:
> Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
> Usenet, or you can't argue.
>
> Arguing IS the point.

Of Usenet? No. In many newsgroups here, the primary point is to ask and
answer questions. Generally, the terminology for people who only argue
is "troll".

--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 18 Jun 2010 17:56
Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18(a)verizon.invalid> writes:

> On 06/17/2010 11:05 PM, JSH wrote:
>> Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
>> Usenet, or you can't argue.
>>
>> Arguing IS the point.
>
> Of Usenet? No. In many newsgroups here, the primary point is to ask and
> answer questions. Generally, the terminology for people who only argue
> is "troll".

Well, that, or "poster".

--
"Clouds are always white and the sky is always blue,
And houses it doesn't matter what color they are,
And ours is made of brick."
-- A new song by Quincy P. Hughes (age 4)
From: JSH on 18 Jun 2010 19:49
On Jun 18, 2:56 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeo...(a)verizon.invalid> writes:
> > On 06/17/2010 11:05 PM, JSH wrote:
> >> Posters take positions antagonistic to me as THAT'S WHAT YOU DO on
> >> Usenet, or you can't argue.
>
> >> Arguing IS the point.
>
> > Of Usenet? No. In many newsgroups here, the primary point is to ask and
> > answer questions. Generally, the terminology for people who only argue
> > is "troll".
>
> Well, that, or "poster".

Yeah. Usenet in my opinion has a great value in talking out ideas.

But agreement is worthless.

If I have an idea I think is good, and I put it up, and people say,
hey, your idea is good, what in the frak was the point?

Then I learned NOTHING. After all, I already KNEW the freaking idea
was good.

Don't need others to tell me what I already know.

Agreement on Usenet is worthless.


James Harris

From: Joshua Cranmer on 18 Jun 2010 21:18
On 06/18/2010 07:49 PM, JSH wrote:
> Agreement on Usenet is worthless.

Only if you post with the attitude that your logic is infallible and
thus anyone posting it is automatically wrong. For most people,
agreement is actually a good way of getting feedback that people
a) Read your work
b) Understood your work
c) Decided that you are not flipping insane

And if you get proper feedback, you can improve the coherency of your
logical exposition and flow of ideas, as well as gaining new insights
into areas that were previously mystifying.

--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
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