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I will take this as an agreement that my arguments were strong and that I directly answered them with well thought out and supported ideas. Because, as we both

by stale2002 3y ago

I will take this as an agreement that my arguments were strong and that I directly answered them with well thought out and supported ideas. Because, as we both know, if there was a problem with anything that I said then you would have pointed it out. So the absence of an objection is effectively an admission that you are in agreement that my points were strong. So I am glad that you agree with me!

kelseyfrog 3y ago
Is this a normal interaction for you or sort of a one-off? I'm just wondering if you apply silence=agreement in the rest of your life or just online, or just now? How important is winning perceived arguments important to you and how did you get to that spot in life? Genuinely curious.
- stale2002 3y ago
  > I'm just wondering if you apply silence=agreement in the rest of your life Oh it mostly applies to online interactions where I can tell what someone is trying to do by asking pointed questions and not acknowledging the response. In that situation, it is almost 100% always because a good point was made and the other person has no way to respond to it, so they don't acknowledge it. Even what you did just now was a similar type of pattern of behavior, where you ask a question meant to imply an attack on my personal relationships (thus the "in the rest of your life" statement) instead of acknowledging the content of the post. The reason, of course, that it is much easy to switch things up to a personal attack or switch up the topic, so that you don't have to acknowledge correct responses. Its an extremely common behavior in online conversations when someone else doesn't want to admit that the other person is correct. > How important is winning perceived arguments Whoa. There doesn't have to be any fighting here! You can just say that you agree with my statements. Thats not a fight! If you agree then you agree. Problem solved. There is no need to say that you lost anything if you just admit that you agree with me. Although, that would be repeating yourself, because you already did agree with me effectively by not responding to the content of the post. That is the most common form of internet agreement and it is pretty much the only way that anyone can effectively get some to admit to agreement, like you just did. Also, I didn't bring up winning or losing at all. Nobody has to lose if you are just in agreement with me. Furthermore, I would say that 2 people coming to an agreement is a win for everyone, including you! So now that you brought up winning (I am not sure why you wouldn't want people to win. I want everyone to win, myself!), I am glad that we both get to win, although I don't think there was any "fight" to begin with.

kelseyfrog 3y ago

Is this a normal interaction for you or sort of a one-off? I'm just wondering if you apply silence=agreement in the rest of your life or just online, or just now? How important is winning perceived arguments important to you and how did you get to that spot in life? Genuinely curious.

stale2002 3y ago
> I'm just wondering if you apply silence=agreement in the rest of your life Oh it mostly applies to online interactions where I can tell what someone is trying to do by asking pointed questions and not acknowledging the response. In that situation, it is almost 100% always because a good point was made and the other person has no way to respond to it, so they don't acknowledge it. Even what you did just now was a similar type of pattern of behavior, where you ask a question meant to imply an attack on my personal relationships (thus the "in the rest of your life" statement) instead of acknowledging the content of the post. The reason, of course, that it is much easy to switch things up to a personal attack or switch up the topic, so that you don't have to acknowledge correct responses. Its an extremely common behavior in online conversations when someone else doesn't want to admit that the other person is correct. > How important is winning perceived arguments Whoa. There doesn't have to be any fighting here! You can just say that you agree with my statements. Thats not a fight! If you agree then you agree. Problem solved. There is no need to say that you lost anything if you just admit that you agree with me. Although, that would be repeating yourself, because you already did agree with me effectively by not responding to the content of the post. That is the most common form of internet agreement and it is pretty much the only way that anyone can effectively get some to admit to agreement, like you just did. Also, I didn't bring up winning or losing at all. Nobody has to lose if you are just in agreement with me. Furthermore, I would say that 2 people coming to an agreement is a win for everyone, including you! So now that you brought up winning (I am not sure why you wouldn't want people to win. I want everyone to win, myself!), I am glad that we both get to win, although I don't think there was any "fight" to begin with.