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[Closed] Internet forums - the last place to ask an opinion??

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I've posted lots on STW and received some great advice (cheers!), but it does strike me sometimes as the last place to look for a definitive answer for anything. No matter what gets asked, there will be lots of conflicting opinions and you can easily pick a side to suit your need. Is this what is called learning through (other people's) experience?


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:02 pm
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sorry, you're wrong


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:03 pm
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Face it tortoise.. YOUR WRONG.....

according to the masses who are obviously right.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:03 pm
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Oh, I thought he might be right.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:04 pm
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xtr.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:05 pm
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i wouldnt know but i think your a ****

🙂


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:05 pm
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It's "you're" 😉


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:08 pm
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Wait for SFB/TJ to post.

Take the opposite view.

On balance, tends to be RIGHT 😉

(I realise the flaw as demo'd by the depression thread, thanks)


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:09 pm
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you're a ****
🙂


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:10 pm
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You're wrong about that.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:10 pm
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link?


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:36 pm
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You obviously haven't got the "forum troll exclusion" plug in! 😆


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:38 pm
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I find that if I want an [i]opinion[/i], an Internet forum (or an old-school BBS - www.mono.org ) is the best place to go. If I want a factual [i]answer[/i], I'd hit google (or, I guess, go to a topic-specific forum).


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 1:41 pm
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or, I guess, go to a topic-specific forum
OK mtb forum so whats best performance wise...
hope or shimano brakes?
shimano or sram gears?
gears or SS?

good luck 🙂
I'm sure car/hifi/ski/crochet forums are the same


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:07 pm
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(-:


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:45 pm
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iPhone 4


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:50 pm
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high rollers but i could be wrong


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:51 pm
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What I mean is,

If I want help contesting a speeding ticket, I'd ask on Pepipoo. If I wanted (say) help disassembling a HollowtechII BB, I'd ask on here.

Doesn't mean you can't get opinion as -well- though.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:53 pm
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I come here specifically for [u]other people's opinions[/u]. Isn't that the point?

I already know what my opinions are. And I can get facts from google.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:57 pm
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Not everyone is the same 😐


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 2:58 pm
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Conti Vert Pro


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 3:00 pm
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It doesn't matter how big your backpack is ffs! GIve me links to facts or I'll stay up all night worrying about how the internet might collapse with wrongness


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 3:06 pm
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come here specifically for other people's opinions. Isn't that the point?

True, but my perhaps badly worded OP was asking if a forum is the best place to get a definitive answer. I'm not sure the web is any better since you click on a link and invariably get one answer, click on another link and get a different answer.

I get disappointed when the internet doesn't give me the answer I want 😀


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 3:15 pm
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Even if you didn't want an opinion - you'll get one


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 4:05 pm
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No matter what gets asked, there will be lots of conflicting opinions and you can easily pick a side to suit your need.

You could go to a couple of university professors or doctors in a teaching hospital and still get conflicting opinions. Try getting a learned consistent opinion on climate change; you'll still get conflicting opinions the same as here on this forum. I can't imagine any scientific field where there aren't conflicting views. S'life, innit.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 5:53 pm
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well i fink its damed hilarwious wen peeple pik u up on ya teribal speling misstakes hahahahaah pik out all those mistakes peeple !
commers here punctuation there FULL STOPS CAPITAL LETTERS...most of us have to ave aspell checker on ere cos we get SLATED otherwise !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉 😐 👿 :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 5:57 pm
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This forum has gone to hell I tell ye!


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 6:10 pm
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About time too.


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 6:43 pm
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fixed it for you


 
Posted : 12/10/2010 6:47 pm