RWHN Appreciation Poll

[Faust]

Uh oh b-man.  They are rejecting your offering.  What will you do now?

Not read the Daily Mail.

Yeah, fuck them!

Guess who this was.

CU? Uncle BadTouch? BH?

Poptard?

The Good Reverend Roger?

Let's not be silly, Faust.  He's dead.

You're right. Then its Faust, definitely that guy.

[Doktor Howl]

Please note that TGRR is responsible for this thread, even though it was started by someone else.  Mind control lasers, doncha know.

This is because TGRR is responsible for everything, and if someone feels uncomfortable about the sheer mass of bullshit coming down on RWHN with his full cooperation, it is best to blame TGRR, who made everyone do it.

Even though RWHN himself is blaming Nigel, who also didn't start this thread.

Well, we're bad people.  We MAKE other people do things.

So of course we're responsible.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Please note that TGRR is responsible for this thread, even though it was started by someone else.  Mind control lasers, doncha know.

This is because TGRR is responsible for everything, and if someone feels uncomfortable about the sheer mass of bullshit coming down on RWHN with his full cooperation, it is best to blame TGRR, who made everyone do it.

Even though RWHN himself is blaming Nigel, who also didn't start this thread.

I thought RWHN is blaming bearman and stelz for falling for your peer pressure, not you for exerting it?

[Doktor Howl]

Please note that TGRR is responsible for this thread, even though it was started by someone else.  Mind control lasers, doncha know.

This is because TGRR is responsible for everything, and if someone feels uncomfortable about the sheer mass of bullshit coming down on RWHN with his full cooperation, it is best to blame TGRR, who made everyone do it.

Even though RWHN himself is blaming Nigel, who also didn't start this thread.

I thought RWHN is blaming bearman and stelz for falling for your peer pressure, not you for exerting it?

Uh uh.  MIND LAZORS.

[AFK]

Please note that TGRR is responsible for this thread, even though it was started by someone else.  Mind control lasers, doncha know.

This is because TGRR is responsible for everything, and if someone feels uncomfortable about the sheer mass of bullshit coming down on RWHN with his full cooperation, it is best to blame TGRR, who made everyone do it.

Even though RWHN himself is blaming Nigel, who also didn't start this thread.

I thought RWHN is blaming bearman and stelz for falling for your peer pressure, not you for exerting it?

You are getting closer.  But it is understandable, everyone wants to feel included in some kind of group.  Belonging is a very powerful force in humans.

[Doktor Howl]

Please note that TGRR is responsible for this thread, even though it was started by someone else.  Mind control lasers, doncha know.

This is because TGRR is responsible for everything, and if someone feels uncomfortable about the sheer mass of bullshit coming down on RWHN with his full cooperation, it is best to blame TGRR, who made everyone do it.

Even though RWHN himself is blaming Nigel, who also didn't start this thread.

I thought RWHN is blaming bearman and stelz for falling for your peer pressure, not you for exerting it?

You are getting closer.  But it is understandable, everyone wants to feel included in some kind of group.  Belonging is a very powerful force in humans.

Nobody actually disagrees with RWHN.  It's just HIVEMIND.

[AFK]

Who said anything about this having to do anything with disagreeing?  This thread isn't about disagreeing with me, it's someone wanting to be cool.

[Doktor Howl]

Who said anything about this having to do anything with disagreeing?  This thread isn't about disagreeing with me, it's someone wanting to be cool.

Gee, I've known Bearman for about a year on Facebook, and he has spent the entire time I've known him poking stuffed shirts like yourself.

But who am I to argue with RWHN, who knows everything about everyone, despite "the internet being a shitty way to get to know someone", or words to that effect.

Face it, dumbass, you're just not a likeable guy.

[Triple Zero]

I AM THE PERSON WHO GIVES PEOPLE JACKETS. IF YOU WANT TO BE WARM AND COMFORTABLE YOU MUST PLEASE ME.

FOR SOME REASON I AM LESS POPULAR DURING THE SUMMER.

I still have your T-shirt, does that count too?

(you weren't kidding about them being high quality shirts, I've been wearing the shit out of it over the years, lately mostly to sleep in, and it's still strong as fuck, great shirt )

[Ben Shapiro]

Who said anything about this having to do anything with disagreeing?  This thread isn't about disagreeing with me, it's someone wanting to be cool.

Gee, I've known Bearman for about a year on Facebook, and he has spent the entire time I've known him poking stuffed shirts like yourself.

But who am I to argue with RWHN, who knows everything about everyone, despite "the internet being a shitty way to get to know someone", or words to that effect.

Face it, dumbass, you're just not a likeable guy.

HE'S THE BEST MAINE HAS TO OFFER!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Who said anything about this having to do anything with disagreeing?  This thread isn't about disagreeing with me, it's someone wanting to be cool.

Gee, I've known Bearman for about a year on Facebook, and he has spent the entire time I've known him poking stuffed shirts like yourself.

But who am I to argue with RWHN, who knows everything about everyone, despite "the internet being a shitty way to get to know someone", or words to that effect.

Face it, dumbass, you're just not a likeable guy.

HE'S THE BEST MAINE HAS TO OFFER!

I prefer Stephen King.

Who said anything about this having to do anything with disagreeing?  This thread isn't about disagreeing with me, it's someone wanting to be cool.

Gee, I've known Bearman for about a year on Facebook, and he has spent the entire time I've known him poking stuffed shirts like yourself.

But who am I to argue with RWHN, who knows everything about everyone, despite "the internet being a shitty way to get to know someone", or words to that effect.

Face it, dumbass, you're just not a likeable guy.

He'd rather cook up stories about how me and Bearman are DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIT IN.
I mean, we're such TYPICAL Texans.
It's all about CONFORMING.

[Doktor Howl]

He'd rather cook up stories about how me and Bearman are DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIT IN.
I mean, we're such TYPICAL Texans.
It's all about CONFORMING.

Beats thinking, right?

[Ben Shapiro]

Stella, and me are secretly building a leather jacket shrine here in Texas's biggest parking lot; also known as "Dallas".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I AM THE PERSON WHO GIVES PEOPLE JACKETS. IF YOU WANT TO BE WARM AND COMFORTABLE YOU MUST PLEASE ME.

FOR SOME REASON I AM LESS POPULAR DURING THE SUMMER.

I still have your T-shirt, does that count too?

(you weren't kidding about them being high quality shirts, I've been wearing the shit out of it over the years, lately mostly to sleep in, and it's still strong as fuck, great shirt )

That's rad!  My kid stole mine, and wears it to school sometimes. Oddly, nobody has said anything about the profanity. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Uh oh
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/online-comment-systems-reveal-multiple-layers-of-social-bias/

Comments that were randomly selected to get an upvote were much more likely to also be upvoted by subsequent users; the first user to see a positively manipulated comment was 32 percent more likely to upvote it themselves as well, compared to a comment in the control group. By the end of the 5-month study, the comments in the positive treatment group had ratings 25 percent higher than those in the control group. The researchers refer to this phenomenon as "positive herding behavior," which essentially means that users tended to jump on the upvoting bandwagon, helping these comments accumulate positive ratings.

In the negative treatment group, the results were a bit different. Just as in the positively manipulated group, the comments that the researchers downvoted were also more likely to be downvoted by subsequent users. However, these downvotes were offset by what's called a "correction effect"—the negatively manipulated comments were also more likely to receive positive ratings down the line.

Raters were nearly twice as likely to upvote a comment in the negative treatment group compared to the control group, suggesting that crowd correction can effectively neutralize one or a few negative ratings if they are undeserved. Thanks to this correction, the researchers didn't see any "herding behavior" in the negative direction on downvoted comments, and the final score of these negatively manipulated comments didn't significantly differ from the control group by the end of the study.

Obviously, comments that are particularly insightful, creative, or high-quality will certainly fare differently, as will those that are simply trolling. But thanks the large-scale, randomized design of this study, we can get an idea of the role that social bias plays without having to consider the quality of each post.

Overall, the researchers think there are three main phenomena that contribute to these findings. First, both experimental conditions increased turnout; in other words, a comment that is rated once is more likely to be rated again, no matter the type of vote it has received. Second, seeing an upvote does help users develop a positive opinion, especially if the user doesn't have much prior experience with the comment's author. Finally, users on the site had a natural tendency to upvote rather than downvote.

b...b...but that doesn't fit with RWHN's notions of why people don't care for him very much here! NOW WHAT?

(full study requires account http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6146/647)