Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20200107155350/@comment-32182236-20200205173949

It's when people systematically try to twist basic facts that I lose my cool, and start comparing them to Trump.

I'd agree with that. Sure, I wouldn't compare them to Trump, but your main point I'd agree with.

Hopefully me being more clear about what exactly I use to determine convincing evidence from unconvincing evidence should help you out. (And give you the tools to see if I'm not using it correctly. If I am biasing towards a certain interpretation, it'll be visible somewhere in the process, considering that it's strictly formulaic. Either in determining what the variables are, or in solving the equation.)

Note that nowhere in there was "how visible is the evidence", "how easy is it to find", "how many times was it repeated", or "how obvious is this piece of information?"

It puts the small stuff in the same tier as the big stuff, rather than below it.

I had to remind people that all I had done was mention the armbands, and the channel did the rest. And that the Holocaust was brought up by Merc themselves.

In that case, there really wasn't a reason to say you were.

Perhaps he thought you were putting pieces, and Merc thought he figured out what you were trying to say..

Just like many try to "solve" FNAF by trying to psychoanalyze Scott's intentions, rather than looking at the games, perhaps Merc tried to "figure out" what you meant by trying to look at what makes more SP, rather than what you actually said.

It's actually one of the reasons why I'm against that kind of thinking, and stick strictly with the systematic, analytic thinking of the "How To Analyze Undertale" series.

By leaving speculations about Toby Fox and his intentions out, I'm preventing us from falsely jumping to conclusions about what he "meant", and allowing us to analyze the game for what it is.

Merc is an example of what can happen when you don't do that. Instead of looking at the wristband comment as just that, the fandom tried to make meaning out of it. And the Merc went around and said that was your intention all along...

This is exactly the thing I'm trying to fight against.

Merc said I was using information that was not in FNAF, to theorize about FNAF. I reminded Merc that the armbands were, in fact, in FNAF.

Exactly. They are.

And that my purpose in mentioning them was the add weight to he idea that Charlie might have been a victim of racial descrimination.

...Okay, that's a jump in reasoning. Just like the jump that Merc made.

What do we know about the wristbands, and how they're given out, and what they do?

It was not a direct link to Nazi's at all, only that mentality. And then.. darkness. Boom. Discord ban.

Mentality to actual Nazis..

Wristband to discrimination...

These are similar jumps, are they not?

Of course, just because you fallaciously jumped doesn't mean Merc can also fallaciously jump to give you a ban. That was still uncalled for.

Followed immedately by a ban on the Game Theorist's reddit board. Which didn't make a damn bit of sense, because I hadn't posted ANYTHING to the GT reddit in months. And hadn't even attemtped to post anything that day.

That really doesn't make sense.

Someone.. had decided to unilaterally ban me from the GT reddit, completely on their own initiative, without cause. It seems someone has my number.

Maybe it was Merc? Is he an admin on the subreddit as well?

Actually, does the policy of the subreddit mention the Discord, or that getting banned from the GT community would apply to the whole community?