Does anyone ever check out Discussionist just for the comedy relief?

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58. DI will NEVER reach the giddy heights of GD:P

Someone over on DI actually made a good name for it - "The Endless Game Without Any Rules".

I do WAY more serious posting over there, it's much more challenging and interesting to have to explain your position properly to people than just sit there megaphoning among a crowd of (supposedly) like-minded peers.

I'm a fan of DI. I think it's a lot nicer.

A lot of the time the conservatives over there have never really been exposed to any liberals willing to make their points consistently and courteously. Also there are no cliques over there at all, as far as I can see. I see a poster snorting derisively at someone in one thread and then enthusiastically supporting their position in another. In some ways, bizarrely, it's much more adult. Even if the ideas under discussion aren't always well explained, there is at least a feeling that an attempt to make such an explanation is genuinely valued, not so much here. There are a whole bunch of trollish types on both sides, but they don't seem to have the same power over the collective understanding of the purpose of the site that they do here. Here everyone's so connected that a splash sends ripples for months.

I had an enormous argument with a guy there called Slayer about whether a spade was a shovel or vice versa. we were amazingly rude! Really! And then we became pals over the ridiculousness of it!!!! lol I think that's awsome!

DU is regarded almost universally by the DI membership as ridiculous, and very often I find it hard to disagree with the things they say about DU. We're terribly self-absorbed around these here parts.