Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
You are really barking up the wrong tree here Nick. For if I have post-count envy, why have I said repeatedly that I will forego my post count?
Sorry if I was not clear on this. I do not mean this in a personal manner, as in the real person that uses
magiciansampras as a handle. Rather, what I was doing was drawing out the implications of the line of reasoning that you put forward, when you draw the argument, not without reason imo, onto a psychonanalytical plane.
I daresay the ones with the post-envy are the ones that are jealous of the OMNI Game Thread folks.
Well, you can't have your cake and eat it. Either there is a psychonalaytical dimension to this, and you need to work it out in all its ramifications or there is not. You cannot just pick and choose half of the argument when it suits you and drop the other half when it does not. Perhaps there is post-envy in the camp that you oppose. But if that is so, why is it so? what does it say about the significance of post-count? And if there is such a significance, what does it say about those who think that making sure that all their posts are counted really, really matters?
It is disenfranchisement of a community that has made OMNI great. @:-)
You know, you can keep repeating the word "disenfranchisement" a hundred million time. That will still not amount to providing any explanation or reasoning of what exactly that alleged disenfranchisement consists of. Disenfranchisement, in its original meaning, means being deprived of the right to vote. I take it that this is not what you meant by disenfranchisement in this context, since I don't see any right to vote that would be lost by no longer having omni posts included in post counts.
So, you must be referring to the figurative sense of disenfranchisement, whci means the loss of power of opportunities. And I have to ask again: what exactly is the power or opportunity that you and "the community that has made omni great" have lost? what is it that you could do before and no longer can do?
(If I were to be facetious, I might be tempted to say that, if anything, it would seem that your power and opportunities have increased, since it would seem that you feel enabled to speak on behalf on the whole "community that made omni great"
.)
So, do let us know. Because if you are unable to pinpoint what that loss or power or opportunity is, then clearly the time has come to stop speaking of any mythical "disenfranchisement".