[DMCForum] Re: Hello?

["supremeadmiralsenn" <AdmiralSenn@xxxxxxxx>]

Bah. I might as well add my squeaking-farts of ideas too.

The difference between political discussions and technical issues such
as blower fans and door locks is that technical issues are not
opinions. As such, the more common ones can be answered with a
one-line sentence and dropped. They don't require any effort and it's
very easy to ignore anything you don't care about (I don't pay
attention to threads about internal workings of parts of the engine,
because I don't have the resources at the moment to really understand
any of it). It's also a different situation with every car - maybe
there are two or three things wrong, or maybe every electrical system
in it must be checked depending on the problem.Add to that Yahoo's
incredibly frustrating search feature and you're bound to get repeat
questions. We also get new members with first-time posts asking for
help, and people get to learn a bit about them from their posts. 

Political threads invite reading because there's always a chance that
there will be some new information. Maybe in some dark Freudian corner
of our collective minds we all WANT to be persuaded to change our
minds. Maybe we're simply looking for new information to back
up/attack a viewpoint. Maybe we like to have geeky web-fights over the
internet. 

The point is, debates, while occasionally interesting, are useless
when it's the same people (we have what, like 10 people that repeat
over and over on the political topics) simply stating "Bush is good"
"Bush is bad" "The war is for oil" "We aren't there for oil" over and
over and over again. It's tedious and offers nothing new. I'm
personally all for debates if the different sides have fresh
viewpoints and back up their major claims. Unfortunately, I don't
think there's a whole lot of fresh meat as far as debate topics go. 

In short, there isn't THAT MUCH to be gained from repeating the same
debates over and over when we all know that Marc, despite claiming to
be a more conservative person in his family, tends to support
viewpoints that are semi- to fully liberal, and that Bob Brandys
really doesn't like Bush, and that Dave Stragand is tired of seeing
liberal viewpoints, and so on and so forth (not trying to single
anyone out here, just naming off the top of my head). 

So essentially, add something interesting or zip it. That's what I
understand Dave's position to be, and it's definitely mine. 



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> I don't understand you logic.  If we were to apply
> this to the list then we should also not discuss why
> someones blower fan only work on high speed because
> the topic has been covered so many times (we all know
> the spiel), or the door locks jam, or <insert the
> monthly tech question here>.  Whats the point of
> "repeating it ad nauseum"?
> 
> You are suggesting the point of discussing a given
> controversial topic is to "convince", which is not the
> case.  
> 
> Some people don't like the political talk, which is
> fine..  Best way to stop it is to not respond to it. 
> Don't participate in something you don't approve of,
> even if it is just a <sigh>.  Ignore it.
>

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