Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-25936766-20190526144331

0551E80Y wrote: Yes, cherry picking is bad because you are looking for confirmation bias to strengthen your side of the argument and would perhaps be a step away from flaming. And after your previous comments as well as your treatment of me. I don't see why I should continue talking to you.

From my PoV. Your argument should immediately become invalid if you choose to break the rules in the process. So in summary, "his argument is invalid because he's a bit mean". How childish. I wasn't even breaking any rules, just pointing out the fact that crying about "cherry picking" is dumb when anyone can always, with a single click, see the complete version of the quoted post, and many people would rather cut parts of a post they aren't responding to than drown the thread in needlessly-big black walls of quotes. You're literally the only one offended by that in this entire wiki.

The "Reply to #xxx" button at the top of every single quote on every single Wikia forum thread shows what post it's responding to and inmediately jumps to it. Not my fault if you didn't know it was a thing. On top of that, people can even see any changes done via edits to any single post in the thread just by checking the history.

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So why not be an adult, and instead of crying about "cherry picking" you simply point out the parts cut out and explain how they "invalidate the other side's arguments"? After all, it's only "cherry picking" if the other side's arguments don't work at all when no parts are removed from the original post.