Does your side usually win in forum threads?

[Theben]

Agathon that's your best avatar to date.

[aaglo]

No, my side allways seems to be the losing side. And that's not because of my arguing/presentation/debating skills, but because of my wievs:
- I want higher taxation (low taxes = bad social healthcare, education, ect.)
- I want to reverse the economic growth (economic growth = pollution in the atmosphere)
- I want the Kioto agreement to be fully effective right now
- I want G.W.Bush to STFU and resign
- I want a green-party president/prime minister to every industrial country right now

So, if you want to be a winner, and you see me giving an opininon on something, just take a side against me. And you'll be on the winning team.

[Cruddy]

I have honestly never kept count.

I'm a bit wary of entering a debate unless I've got something to add to it - even if it is just a little piece of humour.

[MikeH]

I've never seen anyone win a debate on 'poly.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by monkspider



As a whole, we Commies generally win in everything though.

Ya that "world communism" thing is working out just great

[Flubber]

I don't know about winning or losing debates but I am usually right in my positions when I take them. But then again I take very few cut and dried positions.

Oh the exception is that I win every debate against kidicious .

[monolith94]

Er, forum arguments aren't verbal...

[Ben Kenobi]

Or at least he did with Ben Kenobi, that was very entertaining.

[Ben Kenobi]

You'll know if it ever happens.

"Know" is hardly an objective measurement.

Hey!

Tingkai PWNs!

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by MikeH
I've never seen anyone win a debate on 'poly.

No matter who wins, everyone loses.

[Agathon]

Oh the exception is that I win every debate against kidicious

No you don't. Sometimes your side is blatantly unfair.

[Sava]

I never lose. But I don't consider myself part of a "side". I'm my own person. My opinions are my own, and not simple rhetoric from any "side".

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Agathon
the fact that the internet contains a practically infinite number of articles on either side of almost any subject renders this process meaningless

Only if you assume all the websites are similarly authoritative, which isn't the case.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Only if you assume all the websites are similarly authoritative, which isn't the case.

For example, an independent, established research company is more authoritative than a LinuxWorld editorial.

[Brundlefly]

It's funny how many people who have posted in this thread claiming themselves as argument winners are people who are not concerned with being objective and who concede nothing in arguments even after they are clearly proved wrong...