Church wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:18 pm
Elon musky wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:11 pm
Rapsey wrote: ↑Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:48 pm
"Do people think bias exists" is not the same as "does bias exist".
The way you're approaching this: people think bias exists => bias exists.
I did that on purpose as a part of the process.
The next question is in fact the “Why do you believe bias exists?” And that is where the dialogue truly begins. If you walk up to a person and ask them “Why do you believe the earth is flat?”, they will look at you crazy if you don’t first ask them “do you believe the earth is flat?”.
So making a post asking, “Why do you think the staff team shows favoritism?” would be putting the cart before the horse because I just ASSUMING what others believe. First I have to figure out, do people really believes the staff team shows favoritism.
So first we obtain the popular opinion, then we begin getting the reasons why we believe what we believe, then we can gather information to valid or invalidate the reason with real facts and data.
This is ridiculous. Feeling the need to have a poll, a poll that has been pointed out to be incredibly flawed multiple times, in order to determine if you even needed to make a discussion thread talking about it seems like an unnecessarily roundabout way of doing it.
It would've made much more sense for you to make a discussion thread stating your own opinion about the situation and asking for others to add their input with specific information to back up why they feel the way they do.
I don’t mean to be a dick, but it actually makes me sad that a simple poll is angering you. I’m not sure if it is the outcome of the poll or that the question was even asked. Either way, the intent for the poll has been spelled out many times above, so I’m not gonna continue providing you justification for the poll.
If you feel that the poll is so unnecessary and so useless, then simply don’t involve yourself with the discussion. Myself, Rapsey, Nazuths, and others have had quite an interesting conversation over such a controversial question. And I feel as though we did it without attacking each other.
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@Uim legolas , I think you are thinking a bit too much into it. Yes, I might hate Nazuths more than Brussels sprouts, but he hasn’t done anything to me (nor has any of the other staff members) to incite a riot (which seems to be the common conclusion that people are coming to). If you wanna just chock it up to one thing, I would say this was simply a question to satisfy my curiosity. It wasn’t to target a single person for corruption.
Now seeing the conclusion of the poll, I would have loved for this to transition into a deeper discussion to truly understand why people voted yes, but obviously it is truly bothering some people.
To conclude, as many people stated already.... this was kind of a common sense question.... Ofcourse it happens. Doesn’t mean it’s a good thing, and it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. It is simply human nature to gravitate towards people you favor, and to show leniency depending on environment and mood. I just wanted to simply see how much of the community simply ignore it and refuse to recognize it.
If you feel personally attacked by the question,
then you need to find peace in yourself.