08-10-2013, 11:30 PM
Ebster, I appreciate your posting this poll, and I admired your response to Hemi that likely motivated this. (I think I understood the point of Hemi's post, but the way he wrote it came off as more self-serving than I think he intended.)
I am not sure that your poll is the best way to get at the truth of this issue, as it is not so easily quantifiable. First off, none of your responses is quite accurate for me, and this may be the case for many others. The closest potential response, which is not in the poll, would be "I sometimes post positive information I get about IOC and I sometimes post negative information I get about IOC." You see, it depends on many factors such as how inflammatory the info is, how confidential it is, how certain I am of its accuracy, etc. I try to always be a useful participant here at SHU, but telling all I know or think I know may not actually be useful, so I have to judge that.
I am not sure that your poll is the best way to get at the truth of this issue, as it is not so easily quantifiable. First off, none of your responses is quite accurate for me, and this may be the case for many others. The closest potential response, which is not in the poll, would be "I sometimes post positive information I get about IOC and I sometimes post negative information I get about IOC." You see, it depends on many factors such as how inflammatory the info is, how confidential it is, how certain I am of its accuracy, etc. I try to always be a useful participant here at SHU, but telling all I know or think I know may not actually be useful, so I have to judge that.