Opinions are allowed in here aren't they? Am I allowed to have a preference? I can say "All Paladins are ****" and it would be valid enough, because it is an opinion- not inherently correct or not, capiche? If he doesn't like the idea of a skelliemancer, he isn't gonna build one is he? Or is that too straight forward? :/
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This doesn't address the subject at all. It is not a statement of preference but a statement about the quality of a specific build. He believes that they "suxxor" in Hell (remeber the prepositional phrase ending Sigus' origional post, "if Hell is important to you"), but they do not. They are a perfectly fine build for Hell, perhaps even safer than b/s or p/s hybrids in some instances. If it were a statement of preference, then it was very well disguised as a "fact" ignorant of the truth.
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You must be very proud of your achievements if you copy what everyone else says :clap: That way, *no-one* has an opinion! Everyone agrees! That would be interesting for how long?
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Have you been reading Brave New World in your high school English class? Or have you been listening to Bad Religion or AFI with your friends while talking about how you hate the football team? I'm not talking about conformity as an inherent good but as a great way to make friends (Hobbes' "flattery seemeth wisdom" and Cicero's "obsequium amicos parit"). Besides, it was a joke. (did you see the smilie?)
Anyway, you've already undermined your own position. After all, what you state here is merely your opinion, if you still concur with what you said before. That means that what you say really has no bearing on the discussion at hand. Why should I care what you have to say, unless it is somehow rooted in fact? As you admit it isn't, perhaps you shouldn't have posted at all.
The truth is that what others have stated repeatedly isn't a matter of conformity but common knowledge. After you play a necromancer's various builds, you come to learn a few important things, like not using a Blessed Aim mercenary for a Summoner or the passive AR bonus from Poison Dagger. When one shares this information, one helps others playing necromancers for the first time, and they repeat it to others like themselves. That is the "repeating what others have already said" I meant. It's something of a tradition, knowledge passed down from 1k posters to the 100 posters. It is also much more helpful than "Summoners suxxor", since it offers a specific piece of advice about a specific questions instead of a general unfounded opinion of preference.
Finally, the correction of error isn't really "flaming" as much as it is "teaching" aggressively. If someone resorts to relativism or ad hominem attacks, then it's flaming. For now, this discussion is focused on the nature of contributing to fora. Or at least that's what I'll tell the moderators. :uhhuh:
