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- Nov 7, 2011
I'm not trying to invalidate your argument, in fact I'm quite glad someone is discussing the opposing argument at length as it was beginning to feel one-sided. I just didn't see much within the post I replied to that was attempting to validate your claim that the opposition is misinformed. If you think otherwise, then I apologise that I was unable to see it, but you only seemed to briefly skim over the idea that Ventus had spread lies about the rank. There wasn't enough validation going on in there to then justify the claim that "the majority of [users arguing against the HKs] are badly misinformed and are, at best, just unsettled by the concept of the HKs"Um... no? I had JUST explained exactly why everything was untrue previously. I was not going to go about restating it, these posts are already way too long. So it was absolutely not the case that I just said "you're misinformed" and left it at that. I'll go ahead and say I'm displeased at this dirty tactic of... well... blatantly lying about just happened to try to invalidate what I said. I did not just use "misinformed. I stated that I explained what was really going on, which I did.
Again, I'm not seeing the fear factor you're picking up on. The majority of discussion I've seen has stayed civil and, if there has been a fear factor, I've only observed it in any substantial amount by those who claim that users against the HKs just feel left out. Repentance even made a post to express displeasure that there wasn't much activity going on in the discussion.Absolutely yes it shouldn't go by pure numbers. Especially with the fear factor in this poll. It really, really should have been private. There's a reason why voting for public government officies, laws, etc. is private. And it's this. The fear factor of what people will think of you if you don't share their opinion and they show themselves to be very intolerant of different opinions on the subjects.
"I'm kind of disappointed that only 31 people have voted and considerably less have posted their opinions here."
I don't think having a private vote on the matter of keeping/removing the HK's would have gone down well with this community either. There's already claims that the rank is nothing more than an exclusive club and a private vote would have done nothing to heal that misconception now would it? The Hylian Knights are a rank designed to help the community, so if the community at large doesn't believe them to be beneficial then it would be paradoxical to leave them active, even if the reasons behind people's distaste to the knights weren't substantial. I would understand the need for a private vote if the HK's had any real behind-the-scenes impact, but their apparent role is to inspire other members through their normal activity.