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by caejones » Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:22 pm
I've been not paying so much attention to this room, saw that Rocketman had the last post, got curious, saw this thread title, which was almost word for word what went through my head the last couple times I dropped in, eventually read to Rocketman's post and had an urge to reach for the like/thumbs up/up vote button.
I actually did a shallow count last time I was on to see how many threads in the in universe discussion forum were strength debate-related. It was less than I expected, and I don't remember if I saved it, but I basically did it on a scale of "clearly strength debate" getting 2 points, "likely to be strenth-debate but not necessarily from title alone" getting 1 point, neutral, unknowable or n/a getting 0, then 1 and 2 negatives on the other end of the scale.
I remember the end result being in favor of strength debates, but just barely.
This only took thread titles into account. It didn't consider length of discussion or the actual content of posts.
I will say, though, that the more interesting I personally find a subject, the less likely the discussion is to last for more than a few posts.
(That, and not being able to keep up with how rapidly the battle of gods thread was growing were the main reasons I vanished after last October. Now I'm so far behind I don't actually know if it's possible for me to watch BoG or not so I can actually wander Kanzenshuu without worrying about tripping on spoilers. Even though someone apparently did research showing that spoilers actually increase one's enjoyment, but whatever.)
Disclaimer: playing with battle powers and junk is totally fun. Watching "could x beat y?" for the 9001st time, or the "DB characters Vs Lightspeed" debate that has remained pretty much the same for the past decade, not so much.
[edit nov 14, 2013]: I did the count again, and the results were way skewed in favor of strength debates. I was kinda horrified as I watched the score tick up past 20, then it finally settled down to a less-but-still-horrifying 7. The part that makes this particularly troublesome is that most of the weight to strength debates was concentrated in the top half of the in-universe discussion; which is to say, those types of threads are the most active right now, from the looks of it. This giant "You kids and your power levels!" nostalgia-rant-discussion seems not to have made a dent in that particular element.
Also, they're the same questions they were last year, and the year before that, except thankfully Buu and Gohan Vs Dabra have apparently been rung dry (and it only took 15 years!).
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caejones on Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
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