You don’t even need to visit a car/motorcycle forum, just cut to the chase and go argue on the oil forums.
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm
In a forum devoted to the specific airplane I fly… Whether adding 10 degrees of flaps improves takeoff performance. This is known on that board as the “flap flap” and has recurred as a months long debate at least once a year for the 20 years I’ve been a member of that board.
That ranks right up there with routine newborn male circumcision.
gamefaqs?
And then you learned you should enter the water more gently, to avoid dislodging your equipment.
on gamefaqs all you need is a difrening opinion of the other 3 people in a thread and it can be war …
I’ve never knowingly come across one in person, but I’ll take your word for it, given how militant I’ve seen them on message boards 
The other hotly combative topic are the “serious” food-centric shows. Every season there’s always an ongoing battle re the current Top Chef. It’s less on cheftestant drama nowadays than it is on why they were given X task or why did somebody choose THAT dish to make vs. something else and OMG, THEY DIDN’T USE THE “RIGHT” INGREDIENT NO WONDER WHY THEY PACKED THEIR KNIVES!
Chopped doesn’t count. They’re hacks, according to the boards. Besides, it’s on FOOD NETWORK :shudder:
Our ex-housemate is in the show dog world, albeit not as involved right now because of life circumstances, but she keeps up with anything and everything to do with “her” breed.
And here I am elsewhere in this thread giving my $.02 about culinary topics :eek:
Any gaming related forum, really. Heck, we get console vs PC arguments on here with only a handful of active posters in the video game threads.
As for the other one, go to a gaming related forum and suggest that Diablo is/isn’t an RPG and let it go from there.
Benghazi!
Oh My God! Tone wood! I.e. does the wood an acoustic guitar is made from affect its sound?
I couldn’t possibly understand why anyone would go anywhere else on the Internet since all knowledge in the Universe is right here.
Back in 2011, they shut down the DC Comics blog message boards over the flame wars that erupted overwhether Superman or The Flash would win in a race.
Being an adopter of retired racing greyhounds, I participate in a really great forum dedicated to greyhounds. The forum owners have flat-out forbidden any discussion of dog racing and any mention of abuse. The entire topic of using animals for the entertainment of humans is so fraught with passionate anger and debate that we can’t even go near it. You can’t even say the words “Track $name in $city is a great track that treats it’s animals well”, even if it’s true, without causing world war III.
Does this mean you can’t even say, ‘‘I adopted a greyhound that was a victim of abuse’’?
And in the case of one specific military board, the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier. Don’t ask me why.
Kudos to you for making an effort not to live in an echo chamber.
That’s actually why I left Facebook. It’s almost impossible not to over there. I actively sought out contacts with dissenting viewpoints (who could express them respectfully) and the issue wasn’t finding people with dissenting viewpoints, it was in finding people with dissenting viewpoints who could express them respectfully. Then I realized a lot of my liberal acquaintances were just as assholish in how they expressed themselves, I just didn’t feel the same sting because I generally agreed with their sentiments. I regard myself as pretty far left but the people creating the vast majority of my online stress were liberal friends.
This place is downright reasonable compared to Facebook. There may be a dominant culture but at least I learn new things here.
Facebook is crafted and continually fine-tuned to be the most perfect echo chamber possible. Which should not be surprising, as the general zeitgeist of the web is to do the same thing - shape your ‘experience’ so that you only see things you’ve expressed interest in, however casually. Far too much of it is targeted marketing efforts, but the general idea that you only want to see things you’re overtly interested in permeates everything, especially the various social media.
I have been test-driving FB for a few months, and I am ready to give up. It shocks me to see how… cocooning it and the other social media are, and I can’t imagine it’s promoting healthy mindsets and attitudes to be smothered in intellectual donuts.
‘‘Intellectual donuts’’ is exactly how I would describe it. I still have an active FB Messenger life with my IRL friends so I feel I have lost approximately nothing.
Now if Messenger could only cut ties completely with FB I could get rid of my account for good. Until then I have to be happy with suspending it.
No kidding? Me too! (pre-Dope). I rather liked it there, even the really wacky stuff was interesting, and I learned a lot.