(Nota bene: I’ve already written this post once. If I seem a little terse here, that’s why.)
I’ve been reading over the comments left on this blog, and it occurs to me that a lot of the disagreement I’m seeing might stem from a misconception about where I’m coming from. I see a lot of bloggers, forum posters, and WOW personalities adopting an attitude of “of course I’m right” or “of course Elitist Jerks/the Big Name Bloggers/the WOW devs are right”, and I’m doing my best to avoid that here. My goal is for Duct Tape to be a place where hypotheses are floated to see if the facts fit. I have no interest in treating what the Big Names say as though it’s holy writ; I want to try things out and see if they work. At the moment, my attention’s on Haste as a desirable Discipline Priest stat, and I do think it’s a valid course to pursue, but if it doesn’t work out, I’m not bound to it. I’ll just move on to the next hypothesis.
An important corollary to this is that the positions I take on this blog are going to change over time. That’s by design. It does nobody any good for me to insist on sticking with an idea after it’s been proven wrong. (But see above; “that’s not what thus-and-such says” or “that’s not the conventional wisdom” doesn’t count as proof!)
The bottom line is this: I’m here to experiment and figure things out. If you’re more interested in Being Right than in figuring out what right is, perhaps this isn’t the place for you.
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Comment by BobTurkey — April 13, 2009 @ 5:00 PM
Don't give up. I like your ideas and discussnig them, even if I don;t agree with you.
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Comment by Zusterke — April 17, 2009 @ 2:00 AM
The only problem I have with non conformists is that I don't always agree with them…
But that's how I like people best! Who cares about people just nodding “yes”? My urge to know and examine things rather than accept someone's story is perhaps a doctrine from my science studies… (and it was a science department who kept the freedom of research in highest esteem, go figure ;)).
This is what drives to me to read blogs, discuss on fora and share opinions. The journey one makes is sometimes more enlightning than the destination.
It is perhaps what I like best about this blog. I will not always agree with all the priest theories given, but I feel there is a comparable mindset behind it: a mind trying waylay mainstream conclusions, and learn through the process rather than paroting EJ. This is what I feel is interesting and refreshing about this blog.
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