otseng wrote: ↑Thu Nov 03, 2022 10:30 amAlso, I'm not going to tell any skeptics to take it easy for two reasons:
1. I'd rather debate skeptics than believers.
2. Constant challenging is a good test for validating the truthfulness of claims.
If not take it easy, I hope we can at least be decent.
Sometimes I have to call people on nonsense, especially if there's a blatant contradiction or I can easily show why, or someone is trying to shoehorn something into something opposite. Honestly though, 99% of everything posted here falls outside the realm of nonsense and has at least a little truth to it. Finding and acknowledging that I think qualifies as being decent.
This forum absolutely does suffer from an overpopulation of skeptics and an underpopulation of believers. It affects debate. It's for that reason that I try extra hard to defend the believer, if I can possibly find something to defend, I do. Sometimes I can't but usually I can.
In fact on the old version of the site there used to be a title you could give yourself that would show under your avatar: Not a Bully, and it meant you wouldn't jump in a debate to defend the side that was already overpopulated if there was only one person defending the underpopulated side. If I remember right. (Which I usually do.) I did not claim that title because I absolutely will say so if something is utter nonsense, especially if someone is trying to have it all ideologically. But I will try to defend the believers if they have something, anything, and they're being dogpiled.