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Watching Haus and Mordant argue feels like watching Superman and Wonder-Woman fight.
IMHO, the thing about Barbelith now seeming to be not as much as it used to be, debate quality-wise, is the inevitability of repetition. After a while, it seems, we are all doomed to see the same argument being played out by various posters over and over again. And, even worse, sometimes such arguments are re-enacted by the same posters, which adds to the annoyance factor. This is understandable, of course. After all, people will be, and should be, pissed off by the same things, if such things are to be repeatedly rubbed to their faces and they (the things) insist on not getting fixed, both in the ´Lith and the Real World.
So, it does get tiresome, yes, but the idea that quality of discourse in Barbelith has dropped over the years may be an illusion caused by that accumulating grief from such repetition of annoying stuff.
Also, some of the olders posts may not even notice, but quality of posting from many of them has actually quite increased over the years (I've been poking into old threads), thus it would seem for them that the rest of the board is not to "their level" anymore. This is a good thing, actualy
This is my humble, and admitedly optimistic, theory.
[on a side note, Haus, you should stop saying you don´t like being dragged into arguments with everybody else but feels forced to because you just care too much and nobody else will save Barbelith from Barbelith. Considering how readily you jump in, and how you usually open with some snarking, hostility-provoking post*, that argument is losing credibility every time you use it. No offense intended]
* I understand the urge to make some short one-liner that will trump any further debate on the issue with both witts and wisdow, but it usually ends up sounding arrogant and sarcastic, even when it was not meant to be so (and the debate never ends anyway). For the sake of discurse, let´s keep things unpacked. And polite. |
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