> > I'd like to believe that, but you can see the cascade of trash people > posting here to go crazy about "pissant forums" and my attitude toward > Sword Bowl and the price of jackfruit in Denpasar and all sorts of > other super-irrelevant things. Instead of being either apologetic or > wondering what a different trash tournament's actions have to do with > them, which seem like the only reasonable options here, some trash > people are cheering on the impolite behavior and getting defensive. > While that may very well be, this is what happens when people take a simple objection to the Cancel Bowl situation and recasts as The Civil War II: Trash v. Academic. People simply met your loaded, impolite language with equally loaded impolite language. You want a measured, rational discussion then cut out the inflammatory terms when you start a thread. The other side will likely have a stroke from the shock of it and you'll win. > I think it's perfectly reasonable to ASK whether there is a > significant anti-academic agenda at work among SOME trash players, > given that this is not the first instance of an academic tournament > coming under direct assault from a cadre of people who turned out to > be entirely trash-exclusive players. > If that's the case, then it's perfectly reasonable for the rest of us to think you're paranoid and reading far too much into the situation. Sometimes the most obvious answer is correct, and the most obvious answer in this case would not seem to be a conspiracy. > As far as impoliteness goes: Actions speak infinitely louder than > words. I could make a thousand flame posts to this board and it > wouldn't be as bad as the real harm that Cancel Bowl did in the real > world to Brown's tournament. I would be remiss not to point out that by drafting a thousand posts you would be using words, but by actually clicking the send button that many times you are then yourself committing an "action." Sean
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