I never played this game I don't even know what it's about

Quote from: Baha on March 01, 2015, 01:45:32 PM

Here's the easy version:

No, the OP doesn't literally have a question written in it.
When you post a discussion thread on a forum, you are implied to be asking the rest of the forum to respond with their opinion on the subject.
"I forgot this was a thing", "I don't care", "Wow what the fuck" and so on are all valid opinions on the subject.
If you did not intend to ask the forum to respond with their opinion, what you are doing is either blogging or spamming, and you should either get a blog or stop spamming, respectively.

You sound really upset about something really unimportant.

I'm not upset.  If it sounds like I'm choosing my words carefully and erring towards sounding formal (which I am), it's to maximize the chance the person I'm talking to will actually understand the position I'm trying to convey.  Refer to Mordo's previous two posts where he doesn't understand the position I'm trying to convey.

There's really no reason to project being upset onto people when they don't post flippantly/casually

Where in the OP is this stated?

What fucking thread do you even think you're on right now?

This is why I used the word implicit.
If the OP really did not intend to include that implicit question, (which I actually think they did, so I'm not going to fault them for your own argument), then either:
a) They are using this forum as a soapbox and not as a forum for discussion, and they should get a blog.
b) This thread is spam, akin to the people who post stupid lyrics threads in the flood.
But again, I actually don't think this thread is either of those two things, because there is an implied call for users' thoughts.

OP asked a question.  If he didn't intend to ask a question at all I'm not sure OP understands how forums work and maybe he should consider getting a blog instead

That's not relevant feedback at all. It's cluttering the discussion with pointless whining. I don't find Meta's dense economic threads particularly interesting, but you don't see me spamming them with "hurr durr this is boring."

Posts like this, this, this, this and countless others do not further a line of discussion and are still perfectly relevant responses to a thread.  Every discussion thread has an implicit call out at the end of "what do you think about this?", and they're simply answering your question.

Back and forths like this on the other hand actually do clutter the discussion but no one gives a fuck nor should they because forums like this exist for the sole purpose of catering to what the users want to post about

tl;dr please don't get offended when some people don't care, and only strawmen say hurr durr

and has shown an ability to get any topic they want trending worldwide

like when you say things like this I don't even really know how to interpret your conception of who 'they' refers to
There is no big room somewhere where the gamergaters unilaterally decide they want to get something trending
What you mean to say is a number of things have trended worldwide flying the gamergate flag

they're a movement in the same way the people everyone calls social justice warriors collectively constitute a movement

Quote from: Baha on March 01, 2015, 12:28:30 AM

I didn't say people calling themselves gamergate never accomplished anything, the same way people calling themselves anonymous have accomplished things, it's beside the point

If they're accomplishing something then uniting under a single banner would by definition not be 'meaningless'..

gamergate is not united, a shared label alone doesn't automatically grant a movement cohesion

that a large group of people can come together and call themselves anonymous does not grant anonymous a cohesive political position

YouTube

saved me having to post it

gamergate occupies the same category of not-actually-a-cohesive-movement-but-just-a-political-flag that anonymous does, so being "pro-gamergate" is meaningless

ぶと ざ くわえすていおん いず、 かん ゆ あくちゅあれえ れあど でえず わ-あるどそ。

this isn't really that hard to read

Quote from: Baha on February 23, 2015, 12:32:45 AM

lol xd

That means you have adblock enabled on this site
shame

I think I had an argument with verb once where I suggested he use adblock for exactly this purpose after clearing all the filters out and he insisted even just installing it was morally reprehensible

lol xd

I was exalted mythic on bnet get at me

Did Interstellar win anything? That's all I care about.

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