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Oct 31, 2014 | 09:26 AM

#101

black_EM1

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Originally Posted by andrewhake

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Yes, an no. If pictures are posted in something like a gallery, opinions are wanted. Most just don't want to hear that their car looks silly; even if it does. Because it is attractive to them, by default everyone else should have to same taste. It's like that Evasive thread with the black AP2 a few threads up. Beautiful engine bay, cobbled together exterior with no flow or form. It's expected around here that because the car had money thrown at it, everyone will love it. Wrong. But I agree with finding some beauty in everything, although I fail to believe that there is such a thing as an unchangeable list of things one doesn't like. I used to hate the CR lip, now look at me.

I say "unchangeable list of things one doesn't like" in reference to looking at others cars as if they were your own and what you would do with them if they were. Making lists of things you don't like that you cannot change. It's like listening to music or watching a movie and going around telling everyone around you what you would do differently without them asking you. They are just empty statements with no consequences one way or the other. There is no reason to believe that just because someone posted up something publicly means they are asking for others opinions. It's like going to a live performance and yelling suggestions at the performer.

I just find it a toxic way to think in general even if it is just an internal dialogue. Don't assume because someone says something positive they just mindlessly love everything about something and don't have any critiques. If you want your opinion to actually influence others it is absolutely possible, but it is a lot more complicated than just telling them everything you don't like about something.

I imagined as much, but thank you for the clarification. Although many people (like myself on SOME occasions) look at things unbiased, giving quarter to either one way or the other. There is a wealth of things people like and dislike, commenting on it either way has no reasonable expectation of changing another minds; on that we agree. However, this is a gallery/web forum. Just like any other number of forums; if people post something, it's generally understood that they want to share it with the masses. Your build thread or example, proof of this very fact. I fail to see the correlation of a picture on an online forum to a live show but I do understand the reference. But performers have critics, fans and indifferents. That correlation makes more sense, to me at least.

However, we have our own way of thinking, posting and assorted. You may assume too much when attempting to chide me by saying that I blindly think any positive think means complete like, and I may come off too harsh because I speak either positive or negative (in the constructs of posting). But I don't actually believe that anything I say can or will affect anybody one way or the other. Nor do I really care to. Good talk, Andrew.

Oct 31, 2014 | 02:05 PM

#102

RAizzle

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Originally Posted by andrewhake

I say "unchangeable list of things one doesn't like" in reference to looking at others cars as if they were your own and what you would do with them if they were. Making lists of things you don't like that you cannot change. It's like listening to music or watching a movie and going around telling everyone around you what you would do differently without them asking you. They are just empty statements with no consequences one way or the other. There is no reason to believe that just because someone posted up something publicly means they are asking for others opinions. It's like going to a live performance and yelling suggestions at the performer. I just find it a toxic way to think in general even if it is just an internal dialogue. Don't assume because someone says something positive they just mindlessly love everything about something and don't have any critiques. If you want your opinion to actually influence others it is absolutely possible, but it is a lot more complicated than just telling them everything you don't like about something.

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