Nobody here likes to disagree?
By soooobored
@soooobored (1184)
United States
July 22, 2008 10:38am CST
OK, my first real post here was: "Is MyLot too polite for its own good", and I've gained a little experience here since then. I'm still making rookie mistakes, actually violated a couple posting rules, but for the most part people are polite in pointing it out to me.
One thing I've noticed: A lot of people on MyLot do not want to disagree. Strong debate issues are very divided, and are filled with people who agree with each other? They rarely cross lines to discuss, so both end up missing out on half the argument. I like debate, and I like disagreeing. If all I did was sit around in a discussion board and pat myself on the back, I wouldn't be getting half of what I'm here for.
Good debate challenges you to think outside your box (or my box, or any box!). Granted, not a lot of what goes on here is "good debate", but posters who provide links in their post so that everyone has access to the information and can discuss it intelligently provide a great forum to learn something new. (Whew, what a sentence!)
So my question then is, how many people are here to learn something new? Does anyone else like the debate/discussion/disagreement? Even at the (unfortunate) expense of your star rating?
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4 responses
@wallstreet (341)
• United States
23 Jul 08
Look, Katie Couric wanna be... enough with the sentences... By the time you finish your never ending, drag me to the moon, stop and have coffee,( with a refill may I add) and call your mother on the phone question.... I forget what you asked
Its alright, you can call me peabrain...
Have a great day!
Its alright, you can call me peabrain...
Have a great day!@soooobored (1184)
• United States
24 Jul 08
I would never call you a pea brain... while I may never understand your two cents, I always appreciate it!! :-P
(I don't get emoticons yet!)
@ZephyrSun (7381)
• United States
22 Jul 08
Well I like to debate, but I think that it is stupid for a a member to mark you negative because they don't agree with you. I will only mark someone negative if they are verbally attacking someone and most of the time I won't even bother with the discussion when that is happening. If you want the "not polite members" of mylot hop into politics, that's what happened to my star rating, not that it matters to me. But, be careful in politics because sometimes you will not get a strong debate, some are mostly debates with false fallacy.
@soooobored (1184)
• United States
22 Jul 08
I definitely agree its stupid to be marked negatively for a disagreement.
I'm pretty sure my own star rating fell though as a result of making a couple mistakes, violating the rules (accidentally, though). And in that case I agree with the negative rate (hesitantly!) because its being given out fairly.
But I see a lot of comments start with "I don't want a negative rating but...", and I don't like to see that. So long as you are opposing an idea and not a person, you should have the comfort to speak. That's why we're here, right?
Thanks for the reply!
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@sergedan (767)
• Romania
22 Jul 08
I agree with you 
Couldn't care less about stars. It depends what kind of debates you're talking about, anyway, I agree with you on your long sentences 
Couldn't care less about stars. It depends what kind of debates you're talking about, anyway, I agree with you on your long sentences @soooobored (1184)
• United States
22 Jul 08
Thanks for the reply. And yes, I am a fan of the really long sentences, as you can tell, I like to often just separate with commas; even semicolons, just so that I can keep going and going and going...
:-)
@deemazing (395)
• United States
24 Jul 08
I enjoy learning something new, in fact, my profile even states that! It also states that I like discussions because they are a good education. People are afraid of turning conversations sour by disagreeing, and looking like the "forum bully". I had one guy who kept preaching his religious belief. He asked a legitimate question. It was "are spiritual and religious the same thing" and a lot of people stated that they could be intertwined but they are generally not the same thing. Every single thing someone wrote back to him he came back with something similar to "your God is wrong, my God is great...my religion is the only REAL religion", etc. That is what people want to avoid in the discussions. That's called preaching, not discussing.
