resop2 wrote:People don't realize that a ranking thread is inherently a "I hate your favorite <something>" thread. When you rank something like songs, albums, or members, there must be a last place.
I'm going to rank your three statements there, in order of my most to least favorite:
1)When you rank something like songs, albums, or members, there must be a last place. Yes this is absolutely true.
2)People don't realize that a ranking thread is inherently a "I hate your favorite <something>" thread. I mostly disagree with this, for three reasons. First of all, I don't see people here not actually realizing that ranking by likes is subjective. We're just remarking on some of the rankings for the sake of making conversation. Saying "how dare you hate my favorite bla bla" is mostly done in jest. (Except when I do it, in which case I am, as always, entirely serious.) Second, not all rankings go from like to hate. For example, in Starra's ranking above, Ikuta, although ranked last, is someone she still really likes a lot. It's just that, as you put it, "when you rank...members, there must be a last place." Finally, some ranking is based upon objective criteria, such as ranking members by how many lines they have per song, in which case, like and hate don't come into the picture.
3)And, in a large enough community, your last place will have to be someone else's favorite.I disagree with this as well. That's like saying, there's a greater than zero probability that you will eat a salmon roe flavored choux creme immediately after reading the next sentence. So in a large enough community, someone will eat a salmon roe flavored choux creme immediately after reading this sentence. The problem is that just because there is a possibility of something taking place, doesn't mean that it will ever actually take place in the real world. For example. Here's a small ranking of three things that could happen today, from my most favorite to my least favorite:
1) Some random person gives me a huge, life-altering sum of money.
2) I stop in a chain restaurant and eat an unremarkable sandwich.
3) A porta-potty spontaneously explodes as I walk past it, and I get completely covered in gloppy mixture of a pee, poo, and paper.
#3 is my least favorite. Is it
anybody's favorite thing that would happen to them? PUT YOUR HAND DOWN I DON'T BELIEVE YOU.
In sum: I believe I have just logically proven that only an insane or irredeemably evil person doesn't like "Ookina Ai de Motenashite"
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 1:58 pm
lol