A forum is a place with diverse people with diverse opinions of course, and many will disagree about things.
When someone disagrees, they can be rational and use a specific argument based on logic and/or numbers. Example -- I disagree that C2duos are always the best mid-range choice because not everyone wants to overclock, and AMD has a good upgrade path for AM2, and also it would be great for AMD to thrive so that there will be more than one premeir cpu company. These are examples of logical reasons which can be discussed, etc.
Or someone who disagrees with a post might might instead resort to personal characterizations like "idiot", "liar", "BS", "Fanboy", etc.
Over and over you see the calmest most objective posts written with no personal characterizations. At the other extreme we see plenty of personal attacks.
There are a wide variety of personal attacks. There are the obvious name calling like you remember from grade school, but also the slightly more grown up version that's supposed to characterize someone's personality regarding their choices, and various smears, scarecrows, etc.,etc.
Fanboi is such an obvious one.
It's a label.
It's a personal characterization.
It's not an argument or an idea or a string of logic.
It's not very interesting, but it does often end the calm logic in a discussion thread, and sometimes obscures interesting points and ideas (unless you just ignore those posters!
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If someone likes Intel chips exclusively, or AMD chips, that's their problem, and their right.
It's not a personality flaw.
Finally, I'd like to point out the obvious misconception:
The problem with the idea of the "fanboi" is that his "BS" is supposed to mislead newbies.
Right?
Well, that would make sense if the newbie would make a decision about building a $1000 computer based on reading only 1 or 2 posts in a forum!
How likely is that?
It would make sense if people were not able to think for themselves, to evaluate and compare ideas for themselves.
In short the "fanboi" idea presumes newbies are stupid people.
People who choose to build their own computer aren't stupid people, regardless that it's their first build.
It would be great if we could stop calling each other names like kids on a playground.
When someone disagrees, they can be rational and use a specific argument based on logic and/or numbers. Example -- I disagree that C2duos are always the best mid-range choice because not everyone wants to overclock, and AMD has a good upgrade path for AM2, and also it would be great for AMD to thrive so that there will be more than one premeir cpu company. These are examples of logical reasons which can be discussed, etc.
Or someone who disagrees with a post might might instead resort to personal characterizations like "idiot", "liar", "BS", "Fanboy", etc.
Over and over you see the calmest most objective posts written with no personal characterizations. At the other extreme we see plenty of personal attacks.
There are a wide variety of personal attacks. There are the obvious name calling like you remember from grade school, but also the slightly more grown up version that's supposed to characterize someone's personality regarding their choices, and various smears, scarecrows, etc.,etc.
Fanboi is such an obvious one.
It's a label.
It's a personal characterization.
It's not an argument or an idea or a string of logic.
It's not very interesting, but it does often end the calm logic in a discussion thread, and sometimes obscures interesting points and ideas (unless you just ignore those posters!
.If someone likes Intel chips exclusively, or AMD chips, that's their problem, and their right.
It's not a personality flaw.
Finally, I'd like to point out the obvious misconception:
The problem with the idea of the "fanboi" is that his "BS" is supposed to mislead newbies.
Right?
Well, that would make sense if the newbie would make a decision about building a $1000 computer based on reading only 1 or 2 posts in a forum!
How likely is that?
It would make sense if people were not able to think for themselves, to evaluate and compare ideas for themselves.
In short the "fanboi" idea presumes newbies are stupid people.
People who choose to build their own computer aren't stupid people, regardless that it's their first build.
It would be great if we could stop calling each other names like kids on a playground.
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