Quote Originally Posted by SOLDIER #819 View Post
You're good if you don't mind having drawn out arguments, have lots to say, and/or like typing 8-page research reports (without the citations, because TFF's too cool for that)
Whatever do you mean with "without the citations"? You're expected to provide, if possible, a hyperlink with the relevant site or e-document you are quoting from. Maybe you don't have to do bibliography, but you still need to put up the links where you got all that stuff from (even if it's merely Wikipedia).

One good thing that it does is that, when your point is questioned, you get the chance to look for stuff that may enlighten you a bit more, even if at first you're looking at it with the idea of "got to look for proof that proves the other guy is wrong!", but when you get the same document and read it without that anxiety, you learn quite a lot. It also provokes self-questioning (did I made the right choice in using X page to support my argument, or did I merely add some bait to catch him on a fallacy or something?), which in the end may lead to a paradigm shift (oh snap, I used FFXIII terminology...well, "paradigm" is also used on psychology and perhaps on other places, so it's not merely a game thing, but...hey, pun is also fun!).

But that doesn't mean people that can write 8-10 page research reports in hours will end up being good at ID. Some themes (and some responses!) can be pretty intimidating.

Also...why it is that when I see the title of the topic, I get reminded of Chrono Trigger? Given that it's an attempt to revive and motivate ID, shouldn't the topic be renamed "the day the ID revived"?