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Originally Posted by 4Tran
Even if I don't think that the link is newsworthy, I don't mind if other posters decide to check it out. As long as they understand the context, I'm pretty sure that it won't produce any undue pessimism.
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Heh, thanks for that generous allowance.
Pardon the sarcasm, but really, even if it's not newsworthy, at the most it's going to cost people a minute or two of their time to read and evaluate it as they see fit. There hardly seems to be a need to write up guidelines for how to interpret what's written there.
And why should it produce pessimism to begin with, even assuming it's 100% solid? It's not as though there was some great bright future yet to come for Simoun (AFAIK, anyway). Are you talking about the potential for other similar experimental licenses?
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I'm not implying that you are acting out of malice at all though. What I'm saying is that while your intentions are genuine, you're blowing a simple statement out of proportion, and that this amounts to creating a rumor. Moreover, it isn't necessary to adopt hysterics to spread a rumor - a calm tone can produce the same effect. Again, I don't think that you're trying to trick anyone, so you don't have to take my statements so personally.
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Believe me, I would much prefer not to take them personally and avoid the drama, but saying
"what you're doing is to start a rumor that doesn't have any basis in facts", for me, amounts to suggesting bad faith, since I happen to have pretty strong views myself against starting baseless rumors. So, what appears to be a suggestion that I'd
deliberately do it myself is not something I could let pass unchallenged. (The funny thing is, without knowing what the facts are, that statement is also fallacious.
) I appreciate that you don't mean to suggest ill will, but it kind of worked out that way here.
Also, I have to wonder, how is it that I could blow this out of proportion to begin with if most people would think like you do and consider this not newsworthy? I couldn't very well start a rumor if my thinking is so obviously baseless as you seem to think.
Anyway, I think I'd better not look at this thread for at least a few days, because the last thing I wanted to do was getting into the kind of argument we're having here now... It's not exactly on topic, is it? Oddly enough, I usually like reading your reasoning, but getting to talking to you, we're having this problem... Go figure.