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Train Wrecks: why do they happen in the technical discussions?

Monique

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Who wears a helmet biking? Weenies...

:crutches:

(that's a joke... really.)
 

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Hello, I would like to have an argument, please?


My favorite lines:

-customer: "An argument is a connected series of statements intended to form a proposition. Its an intellectual process: contradiction is just the automatic gain-saying of anything the other person has to say"!
-Mr Barnard: "no it isn't"
-customer: "yes it is"!


JP

(Im resisting the temptation to use the wink emoticon....gotta find another one).....but thats what I want to use here....)
 

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Nobody cares about helmet threads anymore. 97% (+0/-25) in the US are wearing them.
 

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Here's why threads can go south.

A spider met a centipede while hurrying down the street,
"How do you move at such a speed, with all so many feet?"
"I do not have to contemplate to keep them all in line,
But if I start to concentrate they're tangled all the time!"
 

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I'll add it's due to the inability of posters to take an opposing position & argue it as if it were theirs.

Once you can master this exercise, you can either arrive at a transcendent view or you can stop engaging.
 

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The underlying premise of this thread is wrong though. Train wrecks do happen in other forums besides technical. Examples:
  • Helmets (though that era is over)
  • Fat vs Skinny Skis
  • Chairlift Safety Bar
  • Responsibility Code, ie "Red vs Gray" argument.
  • Vail
Plus outside of skiing there's tons of topics. I've been told marshal arts discussions get worse than skiing technical discussions in arguing over minutiae.
 

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Real train wrecks happen because trains are very hard to stop once they get going and they must go exactly where the rails direct them. Seems that there is an analogy there that we could apply to internet forums,

uke
 

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We live in a culture that makes changing one's mind given well evidenced and thought through observation/experience/ideas a sign or weakness and incompetence. Grab that idea and hold by the neck until dead. If the ship sinks, so what? At least I was 'right'. ogsmile Master it, then run for office!

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The underlying premise of this thread is wrong though. Train wrecks do happen in other forums besides technical.
Plus outside of skiing there's tons of topics. I've been told marshal arts discussions get worse than skiing technical discussions in arguing over minutiae.


It's "martial" arts.

Not that I'm being argumentative about your spelling, atrocious as it is.
 

Monique

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Well, still closer than the common "marital arts" typo. Which always elicits a chuckle.
 

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Funny how we focus on minutia.....its like when a railroad spike works loose, then the gravel bed, then the timber, then the rail.....then......

;)

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