It's amazing how posting entries only one sentence in length stimulates commenting.
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Quark said:
It's not length, it's content.
Ari Allyn-Feuer said:
But Colin, I think you miss one of his points. There is major content in some of the things Adam writes (like the recent piece on the methodoloogical differences between science and philosophy--kudos, by the way), but no one comments. At risk of proving the point by belaboring it in the comments (perhaps another forum might be more neutral!), I think Adam may be onto something.
adamjanderson said:
You guys love to vindicate me.
Quark said:
Allow me to rephrase: it's not length or content, but subject matter. We like discussing voting, but not so much science vs. philosophy.
Quark said:
Let me rephrase that: it's not length, nor content, but subject matter. We like talking about politics and voting, but not so much "the methodological differences between science and philosophy" (to quote Ari). Or maybe Ari does. But I don't.
Quark said:
What the heck keeps happening to my comments? And wasn't there once a forums page on this blog?
Ari Allyn-Feuer said:
You know, Adam, you're lucky to have a friend like Colin. Even when you've posted something that appears to be completely wrong, he'll go ahead and make silly extraneous posts to vindicate you.
Now that's dedication.
BTW, Chicago sent me the course catalog and I'm reading it like it's a dirty novel. I really do hope I get in.
Ari.
Quark said:
First of all, I didn't post all of those just to vindicate Adam, I posted three times because the commenting function wasn't working very well, and they weren't showing up. But seeing as I have already vindicated Adam's comment, albeit somewhat accidently, I might as well continue.
Second of all, Adam's statement (and probably mine too) are actually true. Among somewhat recent posts, the ones that got by far the most comments were about manditory voting and the math acappella video, both very entertaining subjects. And in both entries, we got into debates and exchanges in the comments somewhat independent from the original post.
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It's not length, it's content.
But Colin, I think you miss one of his points. There is major content in some of the things Adam writes (like the recent piece on the methodoloogical differences between science and philosophy--kudos, by the way), but no one comments. At risk of proving the point by belaboring it in the comments (perhaps another forum might be more neutral!), I think Adam may be onto something.
You guys love to vindicate me.
Allow me to rephrase: it's not length or content, but subject matter. We like discussing voting, but not so much science vs. philosophy.
Let me rephrase that: it's not length, nor content, but subject matter. We like talking about politics and voting, but not so much "the methodological differences between science and philosophy" (to quote Ari). Or maybe Ari does. But I don't.
What the heck keeps happening to my comments? And wasn't there once a forums page on this blog?
You know, Adam, you're lucky to have a friend like Colin. Even when you've posted something that appears to be completely wrong, he'll go ahead and make silly extraneous posts to vindicate you.
Now that's dedication.
BTW, Chicago sent me the course catalog and I'm reading it like it's a dirty novel. I really do hope I get in.
Ari.
First of all, I didn't post all of those just to vindicate Adam, I posted three times because the commenting function wasn't working very well, and they weren't showing up. But seeing as I have already vindicated Adam's comment, albeit somewhat accidently, I might as well continue.
Second of all, Adam's statement (and probably mine too) are actually true. Among somewhat recent posts, the ones that got by far the most comments were about manditory voting and the math acappella video, both very entertaining subjects. And in both entries, we got into debates and exchanges in the comments somewhat independent from the original post.