I love how some of you have the most BOGUS answers and get 15 thumbs up, while those of us with complete and thorough answers get a thumbs down...confusing the youngins on here!
how can you do that?
2007-10-26 03:20:52 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
for the slow and illiterate: im NOT talking about silly questions like "is Hillary wearing a jock strap", im talking about REAL questions that require FACTS, not OPINION
2007-10-26 03:27:17 · update #1
thumbs up from me for those who ACTUALLY answer the question.
and a 'finger' and report for all the other silly rubbish
2007-10-26 03:28:33 · update #2
Clearly, we dont think we are 100% wrong :P
But yeah, handing out thumbs-downs to everyone you remotely disagree with is pretty childish. Sometimes I feel like people read the first sentence of a post, gauge which side of the aisle someone is on, and give a thumbs down so they dont have to think about something that they may disagree with.
But then again, this isn't a great site for public discourse. Most people just show up to ask loaded questions and post snappy one-liners.
2007-10-26 03:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by justin_I 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If people want clear, concise, correct answers, the last place they should be is on a yahoo chat board for politics. I have tried answering questions with facts, after extensively researching the question, it is a joke. I seem to get through to people with impassioned speeches than when facts are stated. And noone on here is a political expert. I have not found any complete political expert. Politicians should be expert at following the orders of the people who put them in office and they are the least expert at that. Most vere from the ideals that put them into office. The big problem is that it takes compromize to get what you want once you are in office and most of the politicians today know nothing about compromize.
Neither do most political experts. Sorry honey no true facts here just observations. I am absolutely sure I will get a whole slew of thumbs downs but I have gotten used to that and just don't care. I found the more thumbs down I get the better I feel.
2007-10-26 03:48:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know which answers you are refering to but I do agree that most thumbs up and down are based on ideology not facts. I also notice that many who think they know everything and are right because they wrote a "well thought out" answer are off base as often as the scewball who writes "right on" and "your an idiot".
I could write a thoughtful and intelligent sounding piece about how Korea started WWI but it won't make it true.
Bottom line, just because you think your answer is right doesnt mean it is. Where did you get your information? Multiple sources? Conservative blogs, liberal blogs, partisan sources and so on... We are a bunch of sheeple who take what like minded people tell us and run with it without ever challenging our beliefs for fear of realizing that those beliefs just could be wrong.
2007-10-26 03:30:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't consider myself an expert I do however have 6 years of studying politics at university to back me up.
but I find with politics the facts are not always as important as what is belived, so all opinions must be listened to.
for example: It is not a problem in the Uk that immigrants are given council housing over the english - it is however a problem that many mistaken people believe that it is true.
2007-10-26 03:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by ebungle 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I've personally ever answered a question on politics, so I've no real opinion on any of the answers you've read. But, if people are offering up opinions on such material, they cannot be 'wrong.' An opinion is nought but that, and therefore is not subject to being 'Right' or Wrong.'
Sash.
2007-10-26 03:27:27 · answer #5 · answered by sashtou 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Most people don't claim to be experts. They go with the candidates that say what they want to hear. It's not an issue of expert - it's an issue of opinion. Maybe the people that disagree with you aren't 100% wrong, they are just disagreeing.
2007-10-26 03:29:29 · answer #6 · answered by Derail 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
LOL could it be that far from the answers actually being wrong that they are merely from a different perception than what you have....
and whether they get thumbs up or thumbs down .. is as a result of people who either share a similar perception or a opposite perception, who have stumbled across what they have written.
2007-10-26 03:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by ll_jenny_ll here AND I'M BAC 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As is the case with most of the boards involving a topic which is vaguely controversial (the religion board also springs to mind), people generally tend to side with those who have the same viewpoint as they do, regardless of the helpfulness or factual accuracy of the answer.
2007-10-26 03:25:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I won't claim to be an expert. I won't say I'm 100% wrong but I don't doubt my opinions are wrong sometimes. The only thing I wish I had was concrete irrefutable proof that I was wrong (or right for that matter).
2007-10-26 03:28:15 · answer #9 · answered by Pfo 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Confusion is part of the master plan - Divide and Conquer.
I would hope the youngins have enough gumption to seek their own truth in such matters and not take the opinions stated on here as 100% factual.
2007-10-26 03:26:31 · answer #10 · answered by sammie 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋