Seibertron wrote:It's not the first time that I've used Seibertron.com to express my opinion.
I know - I wasn't keen on the idea before.
I'm a die-hard collector. I'm very passionate about this hobby. I've been doing this site for almost 1/3 of my life (11 years now) and a fanzine newsletter for the 4 years prior (15 years total so creeping up on half of my life). I've been collecting since 1984. So once in a while I like to use Seibertron.com to express my opinion. I don't do it that often, but maybe once a year or once every two years something gets my hot button going.
I didn't say you had didn't have the right to do it (although I'm not really sure what throwing out the age card has to do with it), I was just saying that it was presumptuous to use 'what we wanted' in the head line without an
a priori idea of the overall site's (and for that matter fan-base's) disposition toward the decision was. Even if the staff were overwhelmingly in favor of the Wreck-Gar idea, they are a small and unrepresentative sample of a larger population of people who are 'members' of Seibertron.com.
Maybe it sounds nit-picking, but I just don't think it's that hard to either run a poll before putting up a headline like that, or phrase the headline in some way that seems less like you're trying to declare yourself to be some sort avatar for the will of the fan-base.
I think the last time I did something like that was with the Transformers Ongoing's artwork from Don Figueroa. Considering how the art direction has changed, including Figueroa's, I'm thinking that I chose a good hot point to jump in the pulpit.
Maybe, but maybe not. I would speculate that the art would have moved on anyway but there's no way to know. Like most of life's decisions, we just have to pat ourselves on the back when things go right and blame fate when they don't. And of course, as I recall there were members of the site who liked the movie-style art, so I doubt there as thrilled with the way things turned out.
Not a fan of ol' Fox news. But if any of you think that Fox News is the only biased news channel, you've got to take another look. All of the channels have a biased view. Fox News just gets the most criticism because they are a conservative channel in a liberal medium. ABC News had a headline last month that was one of the worst news headlines I had ever seen -- it looked like something ripped out of foxnews.com. I can't remember what it was, but it was just an asinine headline.
Well, we could bicker about that one all day, but (a) I'm sure that if we're going to cite anecdotal evidence that we don't remember I would trounce you, and (b) I'm well aware that my own field isn't unbiased, when (by definition) it damn well should be, so I have fairly low expectations of the media in general.
All of these sites and companies are guilty of this. I'm not ashamed that our opinions might come across as being biased from time-to-time. I've never claimed that this site is unbiased.
Hmm... I thought I remembered you saying that you did want to keep things fair and balanced, but I guess I was wrong. Although, I'm not sure that the 'everyone else does it' rationale should really be grounds for not being "ashamed".
And stirring up some controversy with the site isn't all bad. This is a discussion board, right? What fun is a discussion board without opposing views? It's no fun if we all agree with each other.
Past experience with this site has shown a tendency for disagreement and witty banter to spiral down into immaturity, enmity, cyberbullying, and the closing of entire forums. Especially when the staff stacks overwhelmingly on one side of the issue. Or when Don Murphy is involved.