Written by Erik M. on 07.11.2014 at 23:21
The "subject at hand" is whether it's necessary/useful to use "in my opinion" in certain cases. You easily could have been talking objectively about music. Saying it's always totally subjective is a contradiction on your part, because (for instance) you previously said that if you call an album overrated it is objectively done so. Just an example of why it's simply a good idea to use "IMO", either to differentiate between objective/subjective statements, or simply to express your opinion a little more. And lets be honest, how much trouble is it to use "in my opinion"? You can keep coming up with arguments about this, but the fact remains that using "in my opinion" can only increase the readability of your posts and decrease the chance of people being confused by your statements. Once again, saying that everything (musical identity, originality, quality etc., like you said) about music is entirely subjective is just plain wrong. Objectivity definitely is a part of those things and I think you know it (yet don't ackowledge it here).

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Yeah, and we've been over this. The fact that you're repeating yourself now tells me you don't really have any good argument left. And the "WTF" in that comment is just to express how surprised I am by the lack of that album in the list (and rightly so if you ask me). If you're annoyed by that, then it's your problem, not mine. I'm not going to change the way I reply to stuff simply because you dislike the way I communicate and express my opinions. Deal with it.

Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 08.11.2014 at 00:14

Er, Ok Erik, you can keep running around in circles to trying to justify what was an asinine comment on your part if you want, but unfortunately for you it means you must have issue with 90%+ of the comments on the site, i.e the ones that don't use "imo" "I think" etc. so for that reason alone I'm not concerned that you have an issue with what I said. As you demonstrate on a practically daily basis you clearly have trouble with reading comprehension so I don't feel like it's something I have to change any time soon just to please the odd person that can't see the obvious.

Written by Erik M. on 08.11.2014 at 00:47

Nope, you got it all wrong. I admit I might have taken it a bit too far with the opinion matter, but I mainly took issue with your comment and then tried to explain WHY to me it seems like a good idea to use "in my opinion" every now and then, simply to make it clearer that you're expressing your opinion. I wasn't telling you to do just that. I was only trying to convince you that sometimes it can be a good thing to use when wording your opinions (you're probably right that most of the time it speaks for itself when something is an opinion or not, but that's besides the point as I was stating this generally). Sadly, you've proven to be too stubborn to get all this and you've resorted to ad hominem attacks, which is a bad way of debating in general. Not to mention you don't address quite a bit of what I wrote, which tells me you probably realized you were wrong but don't want to admit that. For example, the contradiction on your part which I pointed out (about overrated music). And also how you're wrong about that everything about music is subjective since that's clearly not the case. Lastly, you went on with giving your "advice" despite the fact that I told you I wasn't interested in it multiple times before.