NiroZ wrote:
I don't know about you, but whenever I come across a poll, whether it be here or on another website, I expect it to allow me to express my opinions in one way or another. If it does not, I feel that the poll is saying that my opinions do not matter/they do not care about my opinions and thus I feel insulted.
If you don't know anything about the NFL, or have any basis to make a guess at who will win, then your opinions
don't matter. You *have* no opinion who will win, because you have nothing more than a roll of the dice to base an opinion on. For a poll, "
View Results"
(or simply not voting) implies "
this doesn't apply to me, or I don't care"
. We don't need an extra option added to every poll to designate that. I don't see "
I didn't have time to look at all of the entries, so I'm not voting for them"
or "
This contest sucks, I pass"
on the contest polls.
I think it is fairly obvious that people found it insulting in general.
This seems bizarre to me. If anybody wants to make polls about whatever sports (or non-sports...) tournaments that happen in their country, I can't imagine myself being offended or insulted. I've always gotten an impression of hostility from the rest of the world about the US making a sport and calling it football, when everybody else already called something
else football. I don't know who did that, but it wasn't me, and it wasn't Zex. Many of us do in fact know that what we call soccer was around before our football, and even that the rest of the world calls soccer "
football"
.
Schik wrote:
If you don't care about a topic, what's so hard about simply ignoring it. This forum wasn't made solely for coppro or Jatopian - not every thread has to be of critical importance to you. If you don't care about a topic, ignore it.
Well if ignoring topics are so easy, why is there so much frustration over the 'Predict the next poster' thread? You yourself expressed irritation over that topic.
That topic irritated me because I used to get Forum Games posts in my email, but I didn't want to get 5619 (as of now) emails from that one topic. Thus I disabled notifications for that board. I'm not offended that people enjoy playing that game - I may not understand why they enjoy it, but it doesn't insult me that they want to play it.
No, this forum is not made solely for coppro or Jatopian, it is made for everybody who is interested in DROD, despite their language, culture, race, nationality, creed, or sport interests.
...so then we should only discuss things that
everyone will enjoy?? Again, this board is
Anything, not
Anything that necessarily applies to every person on the planet.
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