http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19195828&postcount=19
“I figure if your posts in a thread exceed 50% you’re preaching to yourself and not for the benefit of others or of a real debate.”
My posts were 5/12 including the opening post… that’s less than 42%.
One of them included an edit to the original post because it can’t be edited after 5 minutes.
I think the thread was in fact more of a debate than some other General Debate threads.
It seems some of the threads are more of a poll.
What does “not really a debate” mean?
I was on one side of the debate and other people were on the other side.
When DrFidelius said just try "Cut everything you eat by half for three weeks."
that would mean cutting vegetable intake as well!
I find it hard to believe that no-one would disagree with him…
Yet that is what people in the thread did.
So it seems like if no-one is willing to be on my side in a debate thread then it gets closed… ? Yet I think their side of the debate is clearly flawed. They’d rather try and twist DrFidelius’s words than to admit that perhaps he was wrong.