Post: #1

A friend sent this to me and I just laughed.



I also saw Roosh's recent tweet about VK's new blog post.

I agree that it seems there's been a lot of strong debates about certain topics on various pickup blogs/forums (race, politics, gender). They can be entertaining though and they tend to correct themselves after enough folks jump in to call out the trollish posts.

Food for thought.

Post: #2

Where's the fun without heated irrational discussions

Post: #3

(10-16-2013 11:34 PM)Hencredible Casanova Wrote:  Food for thought.

I like the flow chart.

It seems fairly comprehensive; however, if the guidelines of the flowchart were to apply to RVF, what could be done when guys don't honor the guidelines contained therein?

Sometimes within a controversial thread, there will be a large number of guys not following the rules contained in such a flow chart and ultimately chaos. Also, there may be several conversations being carried out simultaneously.

It may be possible to temporarily ban the rule breakers from the thread, but it would be very difficult to administer in a fair manner on such a large forum - unless thread banning /suspending authority were more broadly distributed (as compared with forum banning).

Maybe OP would be responsible for his thread?

Post: #4

Trolls gonna troll brah!

Post: #5

1/10; Did Not Like

This flowchart pretty clearly belongs to the crimethink police. On the other hand it might be useful, to chart how establishment footsoldiers would deal with an unacceptable position—you can think of your own example—while still imagining that they were the ones being rational. The basic problems are (1) use of the passive voice ("if one of your arguments is shown...") which invites appeals to (mainstream) authority, and (2) nothing about the burden of proof ("Provide evidence for your position.") Well, if my position is that the moon is made of rocky material and not of cheese, then the burden of bringing evidence to bear should probably fall on the pro-cheese party...

It would be easy to show how the bad guys use this chart to silence or neuter popular "conservatives" like say Bill O'Reilly:

1. Argument: You, O'Reilly, are a racist.
2. Rule 1 from the flow chart: You, Bil, may not introduce new arguments while another argument has yet to be resolved—you racist.
3: Rule 3 from the flow chart: You, Bill must provide evidence for the proposition that you are not a racist.

Etc,etc,etc.