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Thriller wrote:lol blogs are funny
The comments have been on topic so far. One of the less-known side effects of referencing blogs or any other sources is that the source itself becomes part of the topic. Especially if you keep your opening posts so very open and unspecified.[KMA]Avenger wrote:any chance we can have some comments which are on topic?!
Juliette wrote:The comments have been on topic so far. One of the less-known side effects of referencing blogs or any other sources is that the source itself becomes part of the topic. Especially if you keep your opening posts so very open and unspecified.[KMA]Avenger wrote:any chance we can have some comments which are on topic?!
Please refrain from backseatmodding.
Thriller wrote:lol blogs are funny
Dubby_CompGamerGeek2 wrote:Thriller wrote:lol blogs are funny
lol... I don't trust Wikipedia for much,
but I trust it more than most (opinionated) blogs.
An unreliable source can have magnificent stories, but it's all bull. Everyone can copy-paste bits and pieces from reliable sources, add in little bits of their own, draw 'obvious' connections that are only obvious when you leave out a hell of a lot of text.[KMA]Avenger wrote:since i was the main voice asking for such a section to be created on this forum...any chance i can be a mod for this section?
i am not backseatmodding, but i get very...how shall i put it...frustrated i think best fits how i feel-when people post such nonsensical responses to something so serious without any investigation on their part...
"lets just bash someone's sources without knowing what the hell we are talking about...yeah, that sounds like a good idea!"
See what I did? I took a source, and used bits and pieces to create a story. Now we should add in a few 'likely', 'maybe', and voila, my own agenda is served.CNN wrote: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europ ... index.html
Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- ... Adolf Hitler ... confirmed for the first time the chain of events that led to ... the operation ... to destroy the remains of ... his wife Eva Braun ... and ... entire family.
... Hitler ... asked ... a group of special ... agents ...
Two protocols were compiled after the operation was carried out on April 4, 1970, the general said. The first documented the opening of a grave that contained the remains ... , and the other one detailed their physical destruction.
"The remains were burnt on a bonfire outside the town of Shoenebeck, 11 kilometers away from Magdeburg, then ground into ashes, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River," the second document reads ... .
julliete wrote:@Hitchkok: I appreciate your constructive criticism, but don't use it to justify backseatmodding (or 'cover up' your own).
Juliette wrote:In any case, America has long been bankrupt itself. That individual states go bankrupt now is a logical consequence.
Hitchkok wrote:julliete wrote:@Hitchkok: I appreciate your constructive criticism, but don't use it to justify backseatmodding (or 'cover up' your own).
where do you draw the line between presenting an opinion an "back-seat modding"?
i didn't (nor did KMA) order anyone, nor used a special color or any of the sorts.
we presented our opinions (and KMA requested something).
anyway, after reading that link, well, it had little to no factual basis, no analysis what so ever, and not one fact regarding one single state other than Arizona. what it did have is a nicely drawn map with some states colored a different coluor.
and the fact that we're 3/4 past the time frame designated, and not one state filed bankruptcy, means something.
Thriller wrote:Hitchkok wrote:julliete wrote:@Hitchkok: I appreciate your constructive criticism, but don't use it to justify backseatmodding (or 'cover up' your own).
where do you draw the line between presenting an opinion an "back-seat modding"?
i didn't (nor did KMA) order anyone, nor used a special color or any of the sorts.
we presented our opinions (and KMA requested something).
anyway, after reading that link, well, it had little to no factual basis, no analysis what so ever, and not one fact regarding one single state other than Arizona. what it did have is a nicely drawn map with some states colored a different coluor.
and the fact that we're 3/4 past the time frame designated, and not one state filed bankruptcy, means something.
i think i sumed that up pretty well in my 'lol blogs" comment.yea, just not in so many words
His premise only outlines an empending national disaster in a couple pragraphs with no other sources that i could see.....
see, when you want to be clear, you can
Formal logic is tediouse and muddled, sometimes contridicting itself.
I think of it more a guide to discover truth.. like the scientific method or any philosophy. Not a series of rigid universal rules one should base all their descisions on.
Juliette wrote:@Hitchkok: I appreciate your constructive criticism, but don't use it to justify backseatmodding (or 'cover up' your own).