KenboCalrissian
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Well said. I've been feeling the same, and honestly I can't help but feel like I've somehow become one of those 'intellectuals who have become a smarmy [jackalope]' at times (funny, I got censored but you didn't...). I like to think I'm usually better at keeping my cool, but this Twitter mess has really rubbed me the wrong way. I can see this debacle is making me a worse person.
I have this to say though, and it's not pretty... if this all pans out, and it turns out RogersBase and the Twitterers were correct, then we are doomed and we might as well give up. The introduction of tweets to our vernacular is probably the worst thing to happen to us - it's caused us all to run around chasing our tails and even go out into public and beg for more information. We're being baited along for the amusement of those who know things (or don't know anything) and we're just gobbling it up.
We've become a joke. We're the nerds that the cool kids like to pick on at the playground.
More to the point, should those Tweets come true, we will enter an era where we must take Tweets at face value as legitimate leaks. This means we'll only be encouraged to read deeper between the lines in posts that hold no actual meaning, we'll be lead to embarrass ourselves more in public, and no one will be able to stop us. Likewise, the Tweeters will only be encouraged to continue their asinine behavior and gain more and more followers over this disgusting behavior.
We're starting an information nosedive, and unless we take some drastic action our only hope will be to bail out.
To that end, I'd like to propose a new rule: No more posting tweets to speculate on. The reasons should be obvious by now. Even if the tweet leaks come true, even if they held some merit, we must resist the temptation to speculate over them. I don't care if it was Nintendo or YCG who posted them (please, PLEASE stop posting YCG tweets to speculate over...) - the only reasonable exception would be the the tweet contains an image or video that looks like a leak. Barring that, don't do it.
For one thing, there's nothing there for us to talk about anyway, since there aren't any details to debate. For another, we're just giving the Tweeters what they want - loads of undue attention for waving a carrot over our heads. The only way to dissuade this behavior from becoming the norm is to not feed into it.
Overall, we need to raise our standards if we are to become better. No more posting every little text tweet that may or may not mean something. We all need to work together on this - or, we need to retire.
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