The implication isnât that you should be made to conform, the implication is that Iâm not going to engage with you â if you feel personally targeted every time someone decides not to discuss something with you, life is going to be rough.
Why would anybody take seriously any person who injects themselves into a thread that was designed to express delight about something, only to stir the pot and rustle feathers?
Iâm childish for avoiding conversations I donât have any interest in, but youâre not for entering into a thread for which you arenât the target audience and sewing dissent? And donât even get me started on the character name.
SoâŠan echo chamber, where dissenting opinions are not considered. Youâre as bad as Callistus. Its like the femur measurement. Hence, why continuing this discussion isnât worth it. Youâre emotionally set into it.
This is not an echo chamber but we donât like dissenting opinions and it makes you immature to disagree.
Arguing a position on a topic is not ⊠there is nothing wrong with it. You claim to not want echo chambers but call upon anyone âinjectingâ themselves into this public thread with your public responses as some kinda pot stirrer? How is this not you wanting an echo chamber?
I didnât call you yourself childish, apologies, but the action of ignoring those who disagree with you barring outliers is indeed childish. Itâs the equivalent of sticking fingers in ur ears and ytellin yayayayaya.
Name was not my choosing it was my emotionally abusive Exâs suggestion.
Fyorsing is just trolling at this point and knows it. hence the emoticon usage. It is rather indicative of when she is being serious, or just trying to be annoying.
Youâre wanting a discussion to occur without anyone disagreeing with you and are upset that those views that oppose yours arenât being moderated so that you can have an opposing view-free discussion.
I was about to type a long-winded commentary on this whole echo chamber thing but frankly I have better things to do.
Dissenting opinions are not trolling simply by virtue of being posted in dissent. Posts in disagreement with a topic starter are not in and of themselves subject to moderation for simply existing. People have every right to ignore whoever they want to. Telling other people their opinions are not welcome because they diverge from your own is something anyone can do, and something everyone on these forums can ignore.
As per the definition you provided above, something is an echo chamber when it is âan environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.â
What I expressed isnât for an environmental shift, wherein weâll only be exposed to pro-HE arguments â instead, Iâve posited that I intend to disregard any subject matter which I donât personally have an interest in.
This doesnât mean I intend upon ignoring people, wholesale, based upon where they stand on the issue; but it does mean that I intend to ignore any commentary I donât consider to be pertinent â and if your emotional need to have your opinion heard is not satiated, because of this, thatâs quite simply not my problem.
The very first sentence in this thread reads, âthis is a thread for discussing our intense love for high elves as and allied race and why they should be playable.â
Youâll have to explain to me how someone expressing dislike for High Elves, and why they shouldnât be playable, is âon topicâ.
If youâre implying Iâve called them trolls, then you missed something â otherwise, no?
Immediately prior to my posting that, numerous posts had been removed for trolling. That isnât the same as suggesting that everything you post, ever, is tantamount to trolling.
Not wasting my time with someone in denial Fyorsing.
Letâs move on to a new subject.
For example, why ask for high elves when blood elves are high elves, and provide a playable avenue?
Why make the request when void elves exist?
I cannot fathom how others interpret void elves as opening the gate when it looks rather clear to be a slamming of it.
In the post you just quoted, I was quite specifically referring to the trolling that had taken place immediately prior â which was actionable, apparently, because Blizzard removed the posts from the thread.
At no point, in any post herein, will you find me suggesting that any commentary (past, present, or future) made by someone who is against playable HEâs is tantamount to trolling. If it means youâll spend a couple hours scrolling through 8,000 posts attempting to find a citation, though, by all means have a look.
I mean, the thread is really High Elf Love Thread and it is written like that for any purpose. If you want to claim that High Elf is Blood Elf or Void Elf, then kudos to you. You can show your love for it if you want to.
When void elves exist, sure. But why not ask for more options of skin colors and hair colors like high elves?
Why not ask for high elves for Alliance Allied race itself? Itâs because the thread is to show love and support. Nothing wrong with it. It is within the discussion.
People can disagree as long as they are on the discussion rather than being toxic about it and spam memes.
I donât think itâs about hate at all. Not giving what is essentially a carbon copy of one factionâs de-facto signature race (look at the % of Blood Elves to the total Horde) to the other faction doesnât seem hateful on the face of it.
As for the Alliance writ large? Iâm going to chalk it up to absolutely abysmal story creation and writing. Never assume something deep like hate when something simple like incompetence can explain it.
Iâm opposed to High Elves becoming a playable race on the Alliance but I certainly donât hate people who want it. Oh there are one or two I could live without ever seeing another post fromâŠbut hate? Thatâs way too deep to aim at people in a video game forum I have a disagreement over game development with.
Youâre absolutely free to do that, and I donât believe anyone should tell you itâs not ok to ask. I think itâs also perfectly ok for people who donât agree with you to post their opposition and reasons for it.
