(12-06-2020, 02:53 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(12-06-2020, 08:10 AM)mikesez Wrote: Sure. 
If you don't agree with someone about the best rock band or best athletic shoes, you can either disregard it and never do anything bad to them, or post a reply, "The Rolling Stones are better" or "Nike makes better shoes." 
Both are perfectly courteous.
What's not courteous is just tossing an egg at their house and walking away.

So you're problem with the down vote is you don't get an explanation of why?

The lack of an explanation sucks, but I wouldn't care if the unexplained downvote was just attached to the post.
But it's attached to the poster.  
It's attached to me forever because I said something one person didn't like, and I might not even know which part of what I said he didn't like.
We're running this site like it's eBay or Amazon. If I'm selling beanie babies, you'll want to know if some other user thought my beanie babies were musty.
But we're just having a bull session about politics.  Why does Americus 2.0 need to see all the times that mikesez ticked off Pirkster?
But if I go and say something out there, it might be interesting for you to see Pirkster didn't like it, and FSG didn't like it, etc.  Then the next post I make, they might agree with, and you could see that too.

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(12-06-2020, 09:24 PM)copycat Wrote:

(12-03-2020, 12:26 PM)mikesez Wrote: You never agree with me unless I agree with you first.  You're not being honest with yourself and you're not being honest with the rest of us.  You do always think I'm wrong.
When a person has significantly more aptitude and education than most of his conversation partners, he must choose to pretend to have less, and get accused of being disingenuous, or be candid about the depth and breadth of his knowledge, and get accused of talking down to people. Both of us have graduate degrees. So both of us have this problem. I choose the first approach, you choose the second. Your approach of talking down to people works for you because you do it with so much spite and so much disregard for them as people that observers find it funny, though the targets of your ire rarely do.
Anyhow, sneakers actually accused me of pretending to know more than I actually know, not less.
So I don't think you've diagnosed the problem.

You really are full of yourself.

I'm not actually.  FSG is full of me.  He likes it, too.

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