SteppingRazor's Theory of Primary Season Flamebait:

[SteppingRazor]

As one's support for a particular candidate increases, one's tendency to only notice flamebait directed at that candidate also increases.


Practical application: Clearly, there cannot be more attacks on Hillary than Obama and more attacks on Obama than Hillary in GDP -- the two events are mutually exclusive. And yet, given the complaints of both sides, this would appear to be the case. My theory, then, explains how it is possible for the most strident Obama supporters to complain about the massive amounts of Obama attacks in GDP, while at the exact same moment, the most vociferous Clinton supporters scream about all the Hillary hatred.


I'll be demanding my Nobel Prize forthwith.

[John Q. Citizen]

1. For the Nobel you may need to at least put that into equation form.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Right...

As candidate Support (S) increases, Flameblindedness (along with an equation, I need some fancy jargon), the tendency to only notice The Flames (TF, a multiple of both anti-your candidate threads and pro-other candidate threads) directed at one's candidate, increases at a constant rate known as the Power of Unbelievable Stupidity (U).

Thus:
S = TF to the power of U.

It's also known as the STFU equation.

OK, gimme my Nobel. :)

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Al Gore is probably eating his heart out as I type!

[NightWatcher]

2. peel the foil wrapper off, it's chocolate

[SteppingRazor]

4. Mmmmm ... chocolate ...

Nobel Prize winner SteppingRazor, moments after consuming his award.

[JimGinPA]

6. Proportionally, There Are More Obama Supporters Here...

Based only on the numbers suggested by the endless polls on this forum. However, it looks like at least as many, if not more Obama slamming posts here. How does your prize winning formula explain that?


:popcorn:

[SteppingRazor]

7. My theory dictates that you are an Obama supporter.

:P