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osugrad21;775479; said:
The entire point is support whether to prove or refute a point...the Lebron James issue is 100% irrelevant to the debate between you and I.
If you think links are worthless in terms of proving/refuting a point in a discussion, I'm really not sure what else to tell you besides good luck in your endeavours. I'll stick to links.
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well since you jumped into the discussion and took it on it's own course, then that's on you.
The entire point is support whether to prove or refute a point...the Lebron James issue is 100% irrelevant to the debate between you and I.
If you think links are worthless in terms of proving/refuting a point in a discussion, I'm really not sure what else to tell you besides good luck in your endeavours. I'll stick to links.
my point was that demanding links for every little thing is stupid....especially in this case. I was watching TV a couple days before Carmelo Anthony was supposed to announce if he was going pro or not. It was said on there that if he were to stay, Lebron might join him for a year. Of course there's no link to that since it was on TV, so nobody is allowed to believe it.
However, there's a link where LBJ is saying he'd play for Ohio State now. Not that that could be shaded by the fact that OSU is good now, but weren't then. But there's a link for one and not for the other, so everybody can put more faith in the one with the link.
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BayBuck
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BuckeyeNation27;775462; said:
Did you even read your own link? It attributed 5 college choices to LeBron himself--while the idea that he didn't wasn't even considering college came from the oh-so-reputable "sources close to James".
Are you really making the argument that a link to a major national news outlet (including ESPN) carries no more weight than an anonymous BP poster (even a mod such as yourself) saying "I heard such-and-such somewhere"?
I'm with grad21 here:
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27, seems to me you're confusing credibility with truth. I dont think, least from what I read here, that 21 is arguing a remark without link support is untrue, just less credible.
In any case, if I hear something on the Radio that I want to report here, it's no skin off my nose to say "1460 reports that....." Then people know where I got it, and why I have no link. I agree with you to the extent that it can get annoying when every remark is met with a response of "link?" as was the case over on BN for a while. But, again, this isn't about "proving" anything... it's about credibility (and as Deety points out, linking can go towards helping or not helping the attempt at credibility, depending on the source).
In any case, if I hear something on the Radio that I want to report here, it's no skin off my nose to say "1460 reports that....." Then people know where I got it, and why I have no link. I agree with you to the extent that it can get annoying when every remark is met with a response of "link?" as was the case over on BN for a while. But, again, this isn't about "proving" anything... it's about credibility (and as Deety points out, linking can go towards helping or not helping the attempt at credibility, depending on the source).
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I never said linking is a bad thing. It's just pointless to ask for one about Lebron and where he would go to college. What was that...3 years ago?
The same thing with your 1460 repots that thing. Say in 3 years somebody asks you something and you know the answer because you heard it 3 years go. Now link it. You can't.
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What I'm saying is that you believe those were his only 5 schools because they were in print. As if that makes it official. That's not right.Did you even read your own link? It attributed 5 college choices to LeBron himself--while the idea that he didn't wasn't even considering college came from the oh-so-reputable "sources close to James".
Are you really making the argument that a link to a major national news outlet (including ESPN) carries no more weight than an anonymous BP poster (even a mod such as yourself) saying "I heard such-and-such somewhere"?
I'm with grad21 here:
then that is stupid. the credibility of something is based on whether or not somebody wrote an internet article about it.....and how well somebody can find that internet article.
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Yeah, I'd just say "I just remember hearing that" and if they wanted to believe me fine, and if not... fine too.BuckeyeNation27;775502; said:
I guess maybe I don't understand the genesis of this discussion.....
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Well if you say "i remember that"....you're not credible because you don't have a link. I don't agree with that.
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BayBuck
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BuckeyeNation27;775506; said:
Like BKB said, it's not about establishing the absolute truth (which I will absolutely believe in) -- it's about credibility. Your saying LeBron was definitely not going to college may be your personal belief, but there is clearly some evidence to support the notion that he actually considered college in general and OSU in specific.
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BuckeyeNation27;775506; said:
Credibility is about "support" (or, not support, as it may turn out) for a position. Nothing more nothing less. It doesn't have anything to do with "making anything official"
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