(July 6, 2023 at 11:01 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(July 6, 2023 at 9:39 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Nobody gives a flying shit about your upvotes on some other forum but you.

Well, having reputation (upvotes minus downvotes) on StackExchange has some benefits:
1. It simply feels good. It means the community trusts you.
2. Having a reputation of 2'000 or more (like I have on Latin Language StackExchange) basically gives you moderator-like capabilities. Not that I am using those capabilities.
3. You can start bounties on your questions which you think haven't received enough attention. You know, the questions you actually need answers to, and you don't care too much about what other people think about how good your question is. I have done that multiple times, most recently with my question about syntax highlighting in my PicoBlaze Simulator. Internet forums aren't just there for fun, you know.
But maybe you are right, maybe I shouldn't be too proud of my reputation on forums. Maybe the fact that I have a reputation of almost 3'000 on the Latin Language StackExchange doesn't actually suggest I am an expert in Latin.

You have 5 reps here.  What does that tell you?

Keep in mind that Mister Agenda is one of the nicest people here and tomato reps everybody.

You say it as though being the Oprah of Reps is a bad thing.

(July 6, 2023 at 9:34 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I have opened a Politics StackExchange question about it, which has, thus far, received 17 upvotes and 4 downvotes (it is one of the most well-received questions I have ever asked on StackExchange). The general consensus seems to be that Croatians feel safe because most of the adults remember a time when walking the streets was very unsafe (the Yugoslav Wars), whereas most UK adults remember a time when it was slightly safer to walk the streets. Of course, that explanation assumes the Yugoslav Wars really happened, which I am not entirely convinced is true.

It’s encouraging that you now grasp the difference between perceived safety and actual safety, and that you understand that the former has no correlation with the latter.

On the other hand, it’s disheartening (but not totally unexpected) that you’re unsure about the historicity of the Yugoslav wars: a series of conflicts that left at least 150k people dead and more that 4 millions displaced, lasted more that ten years, involved a dozen countries, resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the formation of successor states, involved NATO forces, the UN, and has more hard evidence that a dog has fleas.

Boru

(July 6, 2023 at 11:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 6, 2023 at 9:34 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: I have opened a Politics StackExchange question about it, which has, thus far, received 17 upvotes and 4 downvotes (it is one of the most well-received questions I have ever asked on StackExchange). The general consensus seems to be that Croatians feel safe because most of the adults remember a time when walking the streets was very unsafe (the Yugoslav Wars), whereas most UK adults remember a time when it was slightly safer to walk the streets. Of course, that explanation assumes the Yugoslav Wars really happened, which I am not entirely convinced is true.

It’s encouraging that you now grasp the difference between perceived safety and actual safety, and that you understand that the former has no correlation with the latter.

On the other hand, it’s disheartening (but not totally unexpected) that you’re unsure about the historicity of the Yugoslav wars: a series of conflicts that left at least 150k people dead and more that 4 millions displaced, lasted more that ten years, involved a dozen countries, resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the formation of successor states, involved NATO forces, the UN, and has more hard evidence that a dog has fleas.

Boru

Why are you writing "that" instead of "than"?

(July 6, 2023 at 12:31 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(July 6, 2023 at 11:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s encouraging that you now grasp the difference between perceived safety and actual safety, and that you understand that the former has no correlation with the latter.

On the other hand, it’s disheartening (but not totally unexpected) that you’re unsure about the historicity of the Yugoslav wars: a series of conflicts that left at least 150k people dead and more that 4 millions displaced, lasted more that ten years, involved a dozen countries, resulted in the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the formation of successor states, involved NATO forces, the UN, and has more hard evidence that a dog has fleas.

Boru

Why are you writing "that" instead of "than"?

Typos, and I didn’t catch the autocorrect. I didn’t sleep well.

Boru

(July 6, 2023 at 11:08 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:

(July 6, 2023 at 10:29 am)Deesse23 Wrote: Jesus.fucking.christ
Arent you overdoing it abit now?

What do you mean?

If you have to ask this question, and you arent a trol, then there is no hope for someone like you.
If you ARE a troll, you are WAY overdoing it to be any kind of....interesting.

bye

Quote:Well, I have published a few papers in social sciences, so I know what I am talking about. These are not merely excuses for my political beliefs.

Actually you don't seem to and that makes it all the more troubling

Quote:Well, the evidence seems overwhelming that immigrants make a country feel less safe, doesn't it?

Nope

(July 6, 2023 at 11:51 am)Tomato Wrote: You say it as though being the Oprah of Reps is a bad thing.

Being the Oprah of anything is a bad thing.

(July 6, 2023 at 11:28 am)arewethereyet Wrote:

(July 6, 2023 at 11:01 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Well, having reputation (upvotes minus downvotes) on StackExchange has some benefits:
1. It simply feels good. It means the community trusts you.
2. Having a reputation of 2'000 or more (like I have on Latin Language StackExchange) basically gives you moderator-like capabilities. Not that I am using those capabilities.
3. You can start bounties on your questions which you think haven't received enough attention. You know, the questions you actually need answers to, and you don't care too much about what other people think about how good your question is. I have done that multiple times, most recently with my question about syntax highlighting in my PicoBlaze Simulator. Internet forums aren't just there for fun, you know.
But maybe you are right, maybe I shouldn't be too proud of my reputation on forums. Maybe the fact that I have a reputation of almost 3'000 on the Latin Language StackExchange doesn't actually suggest I am an expert in Latin.

You have 5 reps here.  What does that tell you?

Keep in mind that Mister Agenda is one of the nicest people here and tomato reps everybody.

Well, I don't know what reputation on this forum means. Reputation on Latin Language StackExchange shows that you know a lot about the Latin language. Reputation on StackOverflow shows how good you are at programming. But I don't know what reputation on AtheistForums would mean.