Will wrote:This forum would be a much nicer place to post if there wasn't this dumb tit-for-tat, circular conflict between 'stupid people' and 'smart people'. To be honest I'd expect better behaviour from the latter - if someone is annoying you, you find you disagree with them or believe their post consists of complete and utter bullshit then by all means post in response, that's what a forum is for. However, if you find you're unable to do this without deliberately instigating arguments with people you believe yourself to be above (I see this quite a bit) or resorting to ad hominem insults when discussion gets a little heated, don't bother. Keep it civil, respectful and calm, or just don't post. Additionally, some of the time I can't fathom why the 'smart people' around here even bother getting involved - why not take solace in knowing you're 'smarter' than Deuce22, rather than jumping straight into the shitfight yourself and satisfying an asinine desire to 'prove the other guy wrong'? The moment you begin actively searching for a user you don't like and have had negative experiences in the past simply to 'disprove', bitch about or otherwise antagonise them is the moment you stoop to their level and step into the exact same plane of idiocy.As strange as it sounds, it's not really worth it to have a civil argument with the "other guy" because it requires a lot of effort and provides very little return to either party because 90% of the time, Other Guy will refuse to be wrong. Sitting down and typing something that's ordered, makes sense, and can properly explain something to someone takes quite a bit of time. And it seems that no mater how much we do this, there's always another one waiting just around the corner. They just... never stop. Sometime's it's just easier to sit back and call someone autistic. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with it (also not to say that I've never done it), I'm just saying that it does make some sense to me why it's happening more than civil arguments.
And these civil arguments used to happen more, as you probably know, I think it's just getting really annoying/tiring/repetitive/tedious/etc... to everyone.
