A claim is not complete until Cobra Baghdad disagrees with it.

Then there are several thousand incomplete claims. Including this one.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

*chuckle*

Looks like Ben Breedlove is the new Cobra.

Who you callin "new", ya damn whippersnapper? I was disagreeable long before the either of ya was on this site.

Hahahah. Yes, but you are not disagreeable just for the sake of being disagreeable (at least not noticeably), whereas Cobra votes no just to be a crank.

Actually, that's not true. I tend to feel that lots of the one sided Jyte claims are one sided because lots of people lack either perspective or nuance. It isn't something I do to be disagreeible. It's something I do to encourage people to expand their worldview. It's also that If I see a claim like, "I like Rachel." I will often vote against it, not to be disagreeible, but because I have no strong feelings for Rachel. I neither like nor dislike her. I know Rachel in passing and if something were to befall her, I would only know because Ben or D'A or Vynce would eventually mention it on Jyte.

I also know that her psyche is not so fragile as to be hurt by my voting against and I won't vote for things to make people feel good about themselves.

But, clearly, there's no way to disagree with the jytegeist without being "just... a crank."

That's a nice argument, Cobra, but I have seen you vote no on many, many claims where a no doesn't really make sense and you could have abstained if you had no opinion.

For example: Point me the way and I'll explain why that's the case.

Well, one I just saw . . . "So and so isn't the only one who wants a BMW". This claim is factually true, but you votes no because you don't want a BMW.

I already owned one and had a bad experience with it. The spirit of the claim felt as though it was really saying "I want a bmw, too." I had one. I don't want another.

I didn't realize that pedantry was required at jyte.

Indeed, I don't expect people who don't particularly know me to like me. If I found that crushing, I would hope one of my friends would have pointed me toward some serious help quite a while ago.

I do like honesty, so thank you, Cobra Baghdad. :)

No worries Rach, If I thought the blow would hurt I simply would have trashed the claim and not voted.

I don't think it's pedantry so much as just how people vote - unless something is clearly a joke/quote/nonsense, you vote on whether or not the claim is accurate.

Do I?

Apparently not, but it makes me think you're doing it to be a crank.

Especially since you don't explain to the masses how your no votes are expanding our minds.

When you vote on four hundred claims per day, it's a little difficult to comment on every one where I disagree with the jytegeist.