Nor has anyone come forward and said, "Dagger promised me rep if I voted for him." Facts are things I like, not just people claiming they heard a rumor from a second party that a third person had told them about a PM they received showing Dagger campaigned that way. Obviously, I'm exaggerating here, but you get my point. I haven't seen anyone stand up and say, "I got a PM from Dagger promising Rep."
I don't know why we're still speculating on this. Regardless of whether or not Dagger sent PMs for votes, he's still a horrible candidate. Not using dirty tactics only makes him slightly less terrible.
This is true, and I wouldn't try to argue or deny you or anyone else this prerogative. The arguments I've seen made against Dagger have seemed more emotion based then they are on intelligent arguments, however. I'm not saying people haven't made intelligent arguments, that would be silly. But calling people stupid or foolish if they vote for Dagger while others call him a c*nt expose an emotional argument rather then an intellectual one. Points have been raised, you specifically had 6. However, arguments such as "He's a bad poster" haven't been backed up with substance whatsoever. Just because "X number" people say that doesn't make it fact.
Are you
kidding me? We have PM evidence, hard proof that he doesn't understand the rules, post after post after post of him making unintelligent arguments, losing his cool, and being a generally terrible poster. Nobody's making any arguments saying, "Dagger is mean to me! Don't vote!" In fact, that's
exactly what Dagger's supporters are doing with Coco and Crock.
Seriously, I can understand this type of shit from Habs and Rattlesnake, but
you LSN? You're WAY smarter than this.
Or someone who is passionate about a variety of things. There are things on this site I enjoy, such as video games, but in the rare occasion I post there, my posts suck. Why? Because it's not a forte of mine. I play for enjoyment when I can, but I'm no expert on what makes a great game. I'm passionate about a few games, and that may show, but that doesn't reflect necessarily in a good post. But I'll still post here and there if a topic interests me, even if I know I'm posting as a novice would in the situation. I do it for the enjoyment in those cases. Does that make me a bad poster overall, or a bad Moderator? We both know I'm not.
He is passionate about a lot of things, I just said that. He just doesn't post expertly about many things. Jose pointed it out in one of his posts, Dagger's made tons of threads in the VG&T section, and none of them make it past a few responses. The only one that has is the music thread, and it's basically spam, and Dagger has made over 50% of the responses. His posts are just directionless ramblings of a blind mark.
In the same vein, just because Dagger posts alot, sometimes in places he may not be an expert(Like the CL/News for example), doesn't mean he's a bad poster. Nor does it mean he would be a poor Mod.
He's an expert in NOTHING, that's the problem. Everyone else in the boardroom is a masterful poster. Coco is a masterful poster, and Crock is damn close, but Dagger? He's bush league compared to the other candidates.
And these debates give him the opportunity to do exactly that. Not just to the Mods, or the established posters, but to everyone. All's fair here, but what sucks(especially for posters who try to have an open mind) is we haven't even had the first debate yet, and people are burying him. Let Dagger post his stuff, and allow people to think for themselves.
Dagger has been looking like a total fool in the debates, and you've made it clear that you feel that way as well. I don't know what your argument is here, unless you're just trying to be belligerent.
Or working. Or with his wife. Having a family arranges your priorities as well as your time. Moreso, you can't have it both ways here. Dagger is supposedly temperamental and emotional and goes off at the slightest sign of criticism, but now he's cowardly hiding? Doesn't make sense that he'ld go from one extreme to another.
That could be... but he's been spending plenty of time in the debates and in other campaigning areas.
Cowardly and temperamental go hand in hand. He's hiding because he knows that if he tries to respond to any of our criticisms he'll lose his temper and look like a fool. He has a track record of this in both the Video Game tourney and in the Division Blade saga.
And yet in my two years here, I've yet to see Dagger start trouble with anyone, especially Mods. If it's happened, my mistake, but I haven't seen it.I know the question of "Why does being unpopular with other Mods matter?" will be greeted with the Sidious example, but Dagger isn't Sidious. He's not going to cause drama or stir stuff up in the Board Room should he make it there, and I believe you know this.
Well, open your eyes dude, because he singlehandedly turned people off from the video game tournament, and when people gave him harsh (but just) critiques of his video game, he lost his cool and said some very derogatory, personal remarks.