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Guess how many of us have been totally owned by silence?
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Clueless Newb Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 69 Location: UK

For the most part I'd say that silence ensues an opponent can not think of a sufficient retort, and I would call that defeat. Generally having the last word is a sign of victory - however, if it were put to the judges then it would probably have more to do with who's flames were the most effective. Winning an argument over the internet does not particularly mean that you're right and they're wrong (if you're in fact arguing over anything specific) but the victor is usually the one who emerges with the inflated ego.

That said, some warriors may find an opponent so utterly tedious or beneath them that they simply ignore said opponent - or pass said opponent down to lesser warriors to be hacked to death.

Clueless Newb Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 27

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...owned, bitches...

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Silence is a catch 22 of sorts

true, certain people usually use it as "meh, this peon isn't worth my time", but OTOH, in internet logic, silence usually = giving up, so meh.

Lurker Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 5

If you're interested in "winning", silence only works if you've got the crowd on your side. If the other guy is wildly unpopular already, taking a stand that virtually nobody agrees on, or obviously making a fool of himself with bad arguments, then it's pretty easy to either bow out altogether or write a smug "there's obviously no point to this" last word before departing the field. But if it's a close thing or you're on the retreat, silence will be seen as a sign that you've given up.

Still, there's a time for cutting your losses, and if you're getting thoroughly owned it's way better to shut up now instead of spending another four days embarassing yourself. If you shut up, people remember that you lost. If you keep being a Target for a few more days, people remember that you're an idiot.

Well, At one of the forums I frequent, this very matter came up in a debate about abortion.

Basically, the guy against abortion was a forum veteran, well respected, won his debates 9 out of 10 times, and guy for abortion was a newbie who had I think maybe 30-35 posts to his name.

Anyway, in the beginning of the debate, the newb just had some crummy posts with flawed logic, etc, and when the vet didn't respond, right away the newb got cocky and pretty much went "Hah, he's not responding cause he knows I'm right", while meanwhile, the vet, as well as a few other people pretty much said "Actually, the silence is pretty much because you're not worth wasting time on and you're a retard."

Rallan, as you said, since the vet was popular, in this case, silence worked in his favor, but it very well *could have* been seen as cowardness if he wasn't that popular.

Silence doesn't work, but I've seen people respond only using periods or smilies.

A thread on Stallion Cornell's Moist Board went on pages with the members quoting one another and only using various smilies, each time adding a new one as a response.
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That sounded like a rather interesting, and boring, thread.

Lurker Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 4

Silence from an admin is only golden when it’s head to head and the person has been ousted after listening to his pleas in your last e-mail to inform him “The End”.

I host several gaming sites for free game add-one files with pretty specific rules for how you can use a given site.
G-rated “be friendly” stuff, and don’t cheat to download more than what’s free if you don’t want to pay.

Anyway, it’s a different story for web site owners than flame warriors.
If you are a well known best web site owner for a given site, and another similar site makes a point of attacking you and your site for whatever reason on theirs, a really effective defensive is to just post a poignant rebuilt and never return to their site.

In short, the “pfff, like you matter”.

The same goes for e-mail.
I just add them to my auto-bounce back e-mail program and never read them.
Sure, that infuriates some, but hey, it’s called payback.

Few can reach “Admin/Ninja” status at the same time so don’t be discouraged.
Pick your fights and yes, silence is a powerful tool if you have the clout to make it meaningful.
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Lurker Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 4

hahahha, sorry, but I can't help but comment on Darling Regan's constant "every post" sig stuff here...
My god.. what are you trying to make up for by having a post that takes up most of a screen for a one line text post again and again with all your crap pics and such?

I don't know about the rest of you, and I'm new here, but does anyone enjoy having to scroll though half a screen of bullsiht you seen hundereds of times to read one of actual post text?
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Of course my fav porn poster has to be the alltime idiot champion ATVile.

Not only did the imbecile post a picture of a dude getting fucked in the ass by another dude, but claimed it was not porn because one of the dicks was a strap on.

That has to be some kind of record for the longest bout of eating your own shit and calling it snickers.
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I'm pretty sure you were around for that one. Repressed memories, perhaps? You may have been traumatized by the bald-faced lying.
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It could have been the time I wasn't around and you guys thought (or at least made her think anyway) that I was Poison Lotus.

Oh yeah. I forgot you dropped off the radar a couple times.
This was during the second week of the BH invasion, when most of the idiots ran off and ATVile was desperately trying to get some reaction out of anyone. Besides mocking laughter, that is.
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I was gone during the entire Bawl Hall thing if I recall.

Clueless Newb Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 50

He appears to have escaped from my prison of death and doom and some other word that I can't remember.
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