[DaBackpack]

Originally Posted by blanky!

Kudos to all of you who do post and try to reason out points; it'll help you in the long run. Not that it's guaranteed. Being a lurker is good in that it evades you from criticism, but it also prevents you from getting better at arguing.

Users have no obligation to engage with others on these forums. This environment is a hobby, a pastime, not a place where people are expected to confront their own personal shortcomings or lack of dialectic skill.

With this in mind, it's not at all reliable to make sweeping generalizations about users' character or argumentative abilities based on their regular posting style (or lack thereof). Not everybody has to be analytical all the time.

And, honestly, if you're looking to maximize "getting better at arguing", FFR is the absolute last place I would look to do that