
Outlier
Iron
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Tribal instincts shall reign.
A problem I see a lot of times on this forum is a user who might be new, or has a dissident opinion that might be valid get completely disregarded given his lack of status on this forum. You might have a good thread, but if some rotter who's been here for a few years makes a superficial comment like "muh greycel" your opinion becomes null. This place is like a walled garden where the caretakers don't want to see any progress that isn't made by those of the in-group. Then the problem is furthered by greycels bending over backwards to conform to what those of prominence in this place believe to be the right way.
I guess the point of my making this long-winded rambling is that this forum needs to stop being so tribal if it wishes to be a place of objectivity and reason. Or, users can just keep believing the established dogmas wrought by a few users, in the hopes that they accept you in this cult-like site.
A problem I see a lot of times on this forum is a user who might be new, or has a dissident opinion that might be valid get completely disregarded given his lack of status on this forum. You might have a good thread, but if some rotter who's been here for a few years makes a superficial comment like "muh greycel" your opinion becomes null. This place is like a walled garden where the caretakers don't want to see any progress that isn't made by those of the in-group. Then the problem is furthered by greycels bending over backwards to conform to what those of prominence in this place believe to be the right way.
I guess the point of my making this long-winded rambling is that this forum needs to stop being so tribal if it wishes to be a place of objectivity and reason. Or, users can just keep believing the established dogmas wrought by a few users, in the hopes that they accept you in this cult-like site.