Thread:ABN 7854/@comment-5540817-20121125021622/@comment-5540817-20121128061959

"ABN we, along with MANY other users here know who's right and who is wrong here"

The logical fallacy of argumentum ad numerum at work here. Just because a lot of people believe something doesn't make it true. It simply means a lot of people believe something for whatever reason. The number of people who think something is right has no bearing on whether it's right or not. A few thousand years ago MANY people thought the Earth revolved around the Sun. A few hundred years ago MANY people thought slavery was an acceptable practice. In 2003 MANY people thought Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. I could go on and on but in the end the problem with this kind of thinking is that the village idiot gets the same voice as the smartest person in the world who actually thinks for themselves. The result is predictable enough. I'd rather think for myself than blindly go with what the majority believes (or in this case was manipulated into believing).

When I think for myself a much different picture emerges. What I see is two users who have had a grudge against cooldog for months and an admin that hates him doing something completely off the record and the end result is cooldog getting banned. Yeah, that's not suspicious at all. I'm being sarcastic for anyone who hasn't caught on.

Oh, you guys can drop the act now. You got your revenge.