Thread: Armchair Intellectuals is greatly needed

Originally Posted by CountFloyd

It keeps CD from becoming the outlet for the digital diarrhea of the condescending douchebags who should be posting in AI in the first place.

One of the reasons we don't have an AI is because this sentence is a giant lie. All AI would do is attract more condescending douchebags who would post in other forums too, much to the great annoyance of everyone else.

The way things are is fine. When intelligent discussion is desired it is typically had. Every once and a while there is a retarded post in there, but if you aren't mature enough to ignore it and/or smart enough to mercilessly ravage it then you wouldn't be smart and/or mature enough to be in an AI forum anyway. (this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, it is just a blanket statement)

Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy

Shut the fuck up queerbait, I've always been better than you.

*runs off to a dark room to cry while listening to Creed*

Originally Posted by Mr. E

One of the reasons we don't have an AI is because this sentence is a giant lie. All AI would do is attract more condescending douchebags who would post in other forums too, much to the great annoyance of everyone else.

I'm getting kind of tired of hearing this. It's not as if every poster in AI was a condescending douchebag and the rest of the forum consisted of awesome intelligent people like you who just didn't feel the need to show off how brilliant they were. Things like this are only ever said because other people say them.

The fact is that AI in its day attracted some goddamn fine posters to the site. Some really sincere, thoughtful, clever, insightful, genuine people. Some of them have come here, but most of them didn't, which is a shame. But we do have posters that would make for excellent discussion in an AI; the reason we haven't implemented one is that we don't want to suck all the "intelligent debate" out of other forums and we also have our doubts about the sustainability of activity with such a small group of posters as we have.

I can relate to seeing a need for AI. It would be nice, in ideal circumstances. I know coqauvin and I have had a few debates over MSN that we simply couldn't have anywhere on the site, same with benszs and same with exodite pr syme. But we're not refraining from it so that people like you, Mr E, can feel superior to all those douchebag AI posters.