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OTC is officially a liberal circle-jerk
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Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.00
Huh. I thought I'd be more Authoritarian than that.
That's certainly a *crowd* graph... or should I say, "crowded" graph?
Only one conservative.
Anyway, it is true that there are clear dominant ideas in OTC, which is not exactly a good thing. Not bad enough to stop this one from liking the forum, but nevertheless, it prevents OTC from being as good as it could be. But cause and effect for it are tied so closely that it becomes a chicken and egg problem.
As far as this one understand, it is like that
*Most Tropers Are Young Nerds
*Most young nerds are left wing
*Those who aren't tend to find themselves in the middle of flame war if they persist. Even if no flame war happens and everyone involved is utterly polite and having a pleasant discussion, standing alone with one's unpopular opinion gets quite tiring and stressful quite quickly.
*Which might be entertaining for awhile, but eventually gets tiring either to troper or to the mods.
*OTC becomes even more homogenous
*Repeat
Also, there are things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence
Again, this one is not blaming anyone. It's not like any particular troper is responsible for it. It was simply bound to happen considering that there was a bent in certain direction on this site from the beginning. It simply cannot not to increase as the time goes.
Also, high five! Glad to see another person leaning towards the center.
Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36
Does it count if I checked "strongly disagree" to every question without reading them first?
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Economic Left/Right: 5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62
Huh. I was expecting closer to 2.62, -5.38. Questions were confusing though, because I'm not sure how much to read into them.
Note that OTC is still a good place to be most of the time, though of course this one is not unbiased. To be honest, this one cannot herself spending any significant amount of time on a forum that is as conservative bent as OTC is liberal-bent. Which...is not fair.
Took it again and got
Economic Left/Right: -0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.08
Propoganda or no, precise it's not. Thought that could just mean I am open - minded enough to have fluid politics, or something.
Economic Left/Right: 1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.62
full of dickswell-represented. In fact, one of the purposes of OTC is for lefties and righties to bash each other's skull in. Or at least fantasizing about it while doing something that resembles a discussion.Of course, that goes for pretty much every discussion board.