[Discuss] Speculations

[Thomas Dalton]

> > Either, you have to tell us the answers, or we'll speculate about what
> they are.
>
> He doesn't have to do anything, Thomas.  The sooner you realize that, the
> sooner you'll stop pissing him off.

And the sooner people start reading before replying, the less time
I'll have to take correcting people. I gave 2 options, the 2nd didn't
say Tom had to do anything, it simply stated the consequence of him
not doing something. He has a choice to either tell us the answers or
not, he does not have a choice about the consequences of that
decision.

> Regarding the speculations themselves, there's a lot of times where people
> state their opinions as fact.  If people only spoke what they knew for
> certain, it would take Tom a lot less time to sort through the innaccuracies
> and get to the real source of the problem.  A few examples:
>
> "It sounds like the code has been changed", "The secession thing sounds like
> an intentional change (...), whereas the rebellion thing is clearly a bug".

How is "X sounds like Y" stated as fact?  Both your examples are
clearly stated as speculation and if anyone reads them as fact, that's
their stupidity being the problem.


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