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Originally Posted by haertig
As is your apparent mandate for him to have counted the exact number of posts in a thread asking the question. Your mandate is nonsense.
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If he had said thousands, I would have had no argument with his statement. What I objected to and still object to is his deciding that using a more realistic number for the posts in that nameless "megathread" was not going to happen.
As for counting the messages? Mobileread does that for us. Just add one to the number of replies and you have the total message count. See attached image. I certainly hope that nobody thought that I counted the messages in the
Forum Game: Last person to post here wins! thread by hand!
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Originally Posted by haertig
He was making a point that there are "lots of posts" asking for help. Which indeed there are. He made a valid point. But this point was completely overlooked, in favor of belittling him, attempting to make him out as dishonest and a liar - for something as stupid as an exact count of posts. Which no sane person is going to supply for you.
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He could easily have made the point using a number that more accurately reflected the number of posts in the thread. Again, he chose to use an unrealistic number.
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Originally Posted by haertig
I know that there are several people on this forum who will jump on the most trivial and irrelevant innocent detail in someones post to mount an attack on their character. I honestly had not placed you in that group of people, you've always seemed very sensible to me. There is no need to skip over someones point in a rush to assassinate their character. Leave that to the pros - and we have several of them here on this forum.
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I love numbers which pretty well makes anyone who misuses numbers anathema to me. A numeric error which is reasonable, say, stating the the 3 most posted in DRM removal threads have around 5,000 posts can squeak by. That is a rather large number of messages though a quick examination says that more of them are answers to questions than questions. An error by more than 850%? That is a misstatement that is hard for me to accept especially in light of how @leebase ended the message.
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Originally Posted by leebase
Easy peasy
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I may be unrealistic in expecting this type of discussion to adhere even loosely to the rules of debate. Most of the rules of debate are pretty much standardized.
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5. He who asserts must prove. In order to establish an assertion, the team must support it with enough evidence and logic to convince an intelligent but previously uninformed person that it is more reasonable to believe the assertion than to disbelieve it. Facts must be accurate. Visual materials are permissible, and once introduced, they become available for the opponents' use if desired.
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