as i understand it, there are benning lovers, anti-negs and perfectly rational people with no bias on this board who objectively hate benning and objectively think everything will suck. the latter can scientifically prove people who disagree with them are biased but they are not. you must bow to their amazing arguments and accept your inferiority.
Who said that. I will firmly admit my biases. I don't like Jim Benning's work and the body of work has brought me to this opinion. It's a bias. I can't think highly about moves today knowing what I know about his MO.
There are posters who are sensationally bombastic and call people down.....I try my best to find the meat in those posts. There are a lot of really smart posters here who are a great resource.
Who are the posters "we must bow to"......who says your inferior?
Like, one thing that annoys me about this type of crap is the suggestion people think you're inferior. Some people dig deeper, some people are happy to watch the games and cheer. No one is inferior, the gripe is when the folks who just want to cheer and be happy get upset with those who like to dig into the depths of all the moves.
I think you have a really bad habit of mis-representing what people are actually saying, in doing this, you create a strawman to argue against.
I believe there are such things as anti-negs, there are also Benning lovers, there are also rational people who lean towards both of these. There are also haters, there are also anti-positives, and there are also rational people who lean closer to these stances.
I will say that in my biased outlook, it appears that one side argues the merits more than the other, whilst the others argue against it, instead of for what they believe. My main example for this would be that the state of the discourse and constant negativity is always railed against. But again that's a bias, and I have blindspots, and I'm a highly emotional sports fan who struggles to stay in civil conversations (I use the ignore list heavily and I'd suggest it to anyone who continually complains about negativity or discourse or inferiority).