A rising star.

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I would argue that colorful metaphors used properly only enhance a debate. If you find yourself emotional with someone else's opinion that's really only a problem for you to get sorted out with yourself.

It can never be defined as a debate and my point, that you missed, is that if a site is leaning in a biased manner with moderators and members being the majority or leaning in a specific way, then there can be no free speech or proper discussions when the dog piling starts.

There can never be an agreement to disagree because of emotionally immature players and a lack of fairness and this could be from both players and usually is. This is why X.com is losing members because of biased moderation, or wishy-washy moderation by an owner accepting that he may be bi-polar - so don't get on his bad side if he woke up on the wrong side of the bed that day.

Facebook, to me, will devolve into a shitshow as I can't see any other way for it to go.

The social experiment that will now be Facebook