How has CFC changed you?

[Ziggy Stardust]

I think CFC changed my online persona, but not really my real-life one.

I did learn a lot here about all sorts of things, so I did become a little bit more of a smart-arse in real-life discussion.

 

[Phrossack]

I'm really tired of the "hate Poland" thing going around here. It was never that funny, it was a way bigger response than the annoying jingoistic posts that produced it, and it's gotta stop.

It's not meant to be funny. It's genuine irritation with years of spam.

 

[Borachio]

Well, it seems to have stopped. For the time being at any rate.

Are you missing it now?

That's what usually happens with me: something really annoys me no end; it stops; I miss it.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I think CFC changed my online persona, but not really my real-life one.

I did learn a lot here about all sorts of things, so I did become a little bit more of a smart-arse in real-life discussion.

Both of them.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I got my use of the emoticon from you.

I got 101 uses for an aubergine from Simon.

 

[Bugfatty300]

It's a waste of time and energy to post anything longer than a couple lines. The same applies to arguing with people with stupid opinions.

Oh zack, you so crazy sometimes.

 

[Mouthwash]

Definitely helped my writing. Look at my early posts and you'll see just how painfully I tried to imitate prose. Traitor and Owen have probably had the biggest influence.

 

[Tee Kay]

Made me realise other people can sometimes have radically different views of what you think are commonly-understood.

Not that they're right, but still.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

I went from being a center-right person obsessed with social issues to a Conservative Libertarian. I'm also a lot smarter and use much better grammar than I did in 2010.

Probably the biggest change was foreign policy and I'm with Ron Paul now. I'm also very skeptical of anything said by political leaders, much more so than four years ago.

 

[Zack]

You can't touch CFC, but CFC can touch you.

Kind of like your uncle.

 

[jackelgull]

I am a young impressionable teenager, so my opinion changes, sometimes radically, after gaining more information about a topic. What CFC has done is bombarded me with conflicting opinions backed with varying facts. I have learned to listen to both sides of an argument, formulate an opinion and then do research to back it up, or even have it changed. I find myself torn between issues that have no right answers, such as how the police should be handled as to prevent abuses and all those controversial topics.

 

[GenMarshall]

It made me a much bitter and cynical person.

 

[Truronian]

CFC has helped shape my political opinions somewhat, but that was mainly back in my late teens.

 

[Domen]

any country in the game from an eastern Europe except Russia is more an act of compassion really.

Including civs such as e.g. the Zulus, the Iroquois, etc., is an act of compassion indeed - but why do you think this is the case with EE civs?

 

[Domen]

The biggest achievement of the Zulu "civilization" was destroying one overextended & undersupplied British battalion in a surprise attack.

Sorry, quite laughable for a civ. Maybe quite admirable for an Early Iron Age farming tribe armed with spears, but not for a civ.

 

[Mise]

It's definitely helped my writing -- just from the sheer amount of text I write on here. I've become an awful lot better at writing clearly and persuasively, organising my thoughts, and conveying meaning. That's helped me a lot at work, actually, especially during performance reviews and interviews. It also helps me to anticipate possible responses, and pre-emptively discuss them so that I'm in control of the conversation. That allows me, at work, to make sure that my ideas are the ones that are taken the most seriously, because I've demonstrated that I've thought about it from all angles already. Finally, writing on CFC has taught me how to speak in a more authoritative, leader-like tone. My mode of speech at work has changed from being combative to authoritative, and that's largely because of the practice I got on CFC, from avoiding confrontational arguments and seeking out more genuine discussions with "thought leaders".

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I have become more irritated with the world in general.

Which beats blissful ignorance.

Thanks CFC!

 

[Traitorfish]

Definitely helped my writing. Look at my early posts and you'll see just how painfully I tried to imitate prose. Traitor and Owen have probably had the biggest influence.

Better watch that. If you let it continue, your posts will consist of nothing but "as such" and "mang", over and over again.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Better watch that. If you let it continue, your posts will consist of nothing but "as such" and "mang", over and over again.

Mang was more of a Dachs thing if anything.

 

[Hygro]

I think Mouthwash's writing style is pretty solid. I'd trust him with mangs and fo shos.