Does your side usually win in forum threads?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Theben
Agathon that's your best avatar to date.

Ming likes it too.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
Even when somebody makes a ridiculous assertion that a company is selling its products at a loss because their profit decreased (but is still profitable ).

Own goal.

Edit: Background so that other people can understand: Creative Technology recently reported quarterly results. Sales were up 30%, profits fell 84%.

Asher response: "That's what they get for having high quality players for low prices. Still a profitable company, sales are up. It's all good."

[Heresson]

Heressonus semper victorus est, as an old latin proverb claims.

[loinburger]

Ideally, my side is the first to be banned in a debate. I don't know or care if that counts as winning or losing.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
The problem here is that there are very few proper debators.

I would suggest that the problem is that those people who can debate properly realise the fruitlessness of attempting to do so on the internet, where the majority will not counterargue in kind.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by David Floyd
OB and Kuci are exhibiting Agathon's basic structure of a 'Poly debate as we speak. Oh the irony

Ah, but after I state that my opponent is wrong, I provide a reason

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Agathon
Winning an argument is getting the other side to admit they were mistaken. That never happens.

It once happened with ( ) Kidicious. We weren't sure if it was allowed.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Agathon


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

And that is WHY we win. we have the skewed of advantage of having some successful real-life examples of variations of capitalist theories working!!

[Whaleboy]

I would suggest that the problem is that those people who can debate properly realise the fruitlessness of attempting to do so on the internet, where the majority will not counterargue in kind.

Not necessarily...there's a couple of philosophy forums (ektopos and politicsforum's philosophy section) that impress me greatly. Trouble is you have to have philosophical pretentions to have debating pretensions.

Agathon: The trouble with communism is that it relies on the assumption that humanity deserves to exist

[Imran Siddiqui]

Of course my side wins... in fact we are winning in this thread right now!

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
Not necessarily...there's a couple of philosophy forums (ektopos and politicsforum's philosophy section) that impress me greatly. Trouble is you have to have philosophical pretentions to have debating pretensions.

Ok, but in general, pick an average internet forum and the idiot:debater ratio is high. A forum intended for debating won't attract (or certainly won't keep) so many people not interested in overly dialectic conversations.

[dojoboy]

No, because I can't punch anyone.

[Agathon]

And that is WHY we win. we have the skewed of advantage of having some successful real-life examples of variations of capitalist theories working!!

That was aimed at the Libertarians. You show me a Libertarian society.

[Whaleboy]

Ok, but in general, pick an average internet forum and the idiot:debater ratio is high. A forum intended for debating won't attract (or certainly won't keep) so many people not interested in overly dialectic conversations.

True, but idiocy is no excuse for the idiots.

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by Agathon
That was aimed at the Libertarians. You show me a Libertarian society.

He's got you by the balls there I'm afraid... though I'd actually be tempted to say the Weimar Republic in Germany... but that's a self defeating example . Though I suppose you could blame that on democracy.

Democracy .