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WCDT Strips 3626 to 3630 (4th to 8th December 2017)
Technoir:
I dropped a #2 on the Tilly poll. Super annoying and manipulative.
Demonstrating enthusiasm and competence didn't work, so they pulled the "I'm a failure! WAAAAAH!" pathetic/sobstory trick on Hannelore.
Don't like them.
JimC:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 06 Dec 2017, 04:31 --- so, self selection with a vengeance.
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Not only that, but people who post actively on any given forum are a self selecting potentially unrepresentative subset of those who read it. How many people would say that the results of the poll above are a reasonable reflection of the general thread of posts about the character? Its something I noticed wth considerable amusement on another forum on an utterly different topic recently. A particularly vocal poster with a small coterie of followers posted a poll about a topic that he was frequently vehement about (and about which most posts were supportive from his coterie) - and the other self selecting subset of people who vote in forum polls massively disagreed with him!
Case:
--- Quote from: JimC on 06 Dec 2017, 05:03 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 06 Dec 2017, 04:31 --- so, self selection with a vengeance.
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Not only that, but people who post actively on any given forum are a self selecting potentially unrepresentative subset of those who read it. How many people would say that the results of the poll above are a reasonable reflection of the general thread of posts about the character? Its something I noticed wth considerable amusement on another forum on an utterly different topic recently. A particularly vocal poster with a small coterie of followers posted a poll about a topic that he was frequently vehement about (and about which most posts were supportive from his coterie) - and the other self selecting subset of people who vote in forum polls massively disagreed with him!
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IIRC there's a study that estimates the ratio of active posters to lurkers on any given forum to be roughly 1/100.
--- Quote from: Technoir on 06 Dec 2017, 04:59 ---I dropped a #2 on the Tilly poll. Super annoying and manipulative.
Demonstrating enthusiasm and competence didn't work, so they pulled the "I'm a failure! WAAAAAH!" pathetic/sobstory trick on Hannelore.
Don't like them.
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: JimC on 06 Dec 2017, 01:31 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 05 Dec 2017, 15:18 ---Bottom line: don't be so quick to airily dismiss the opinions of an entire community. Especially the community whose existence helps to ensure that you can continue to read and discuss the very comic we're all enjoying.
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But I find it disturbing how recent society polarises itself so readily and so vehemently on so many topics, to the detriment of its own good, and this is such a good mirror of that.
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This extreme polarization on pretty much any topic is nowhere happening as badly as in the US though, undoubtedly a side effect of the fact that there are really only 2 parties (which I have always found a dubious system as a native Dutchman).
To be honest, US society is already in a (not so) civil war, and so far nobody is "winning" (maybe extreme conservative Christians and big corporations?) and everybody is losing.
Edit: edited as I realized I didn't even believe it myself to be true...
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Case on 06 Dec 2017, 02:59 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 06 Dec 2017, 01:31 ---But I find it disturbing how recent society polarises itself so readily and so vehemently on so many topics, to the detriment of its own good, and this is such a good mirror of that.
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Funny, my (Boomer) teachers used to tell us we were creepily disengaged and unsettlingly dispassionate about politics and society and all that stuff. Which usually elicited the "Unsettling Gen-Xer grin" or the "Whatever ..."
Pendulum swinging back, I s'pose. :laugh:
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However, being passionate and engaged is not the same as being polarizing and dismissive of any and all arguments the opposite party makes.
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