Ok i can view the backroom but cant post in it why?

[Beskar]

The search function is also great for calling people on their ideas when they flip-flop the issues :)

Only problem with that is that people change their opinions and views over-time. For example, I was once posting something when another patron took a statement of mine from the past out of context in order to attempt to discredit that argument and it took around 3 replies to re-correct them on a mistake which I corrected in the original thread, but it causes awkwardness. There are even members who have had a colourful past and changed their views/opinions since, if they were repeatedly bombarded by something they said years and years ago, which they long since stated they don't hold that view, then it becomes rather silly.

Never really understood the American obsession of taking a quote from the 1980's and using it to discredit an opponent 20 years later in completely different circumstances.

[Major Robert Dump]

Well, your example is extreme, and I agree most peoples opinions do change over time, and the american political obsession with flip flopping is overrated. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of finding contradictory stuff about someone you are arguing with, more recent like, such as in one thread I say I am allergic to eggs and in another thread I argue that Waffle House has better omelets than Dennys.

[Beskar]

Well, your example is extreme, and I agree most peoples opinions do change over time, and the american political obsession with flip flopping is overrated. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of finding contradictory stuff about someone you are arguing with, more recent like, such as in one thread I say I am allergic to eggs and in another thread I argue that Waffle House has better omelets than Dennys.

That I agree with. I have no issues with people who hold up their hands and say they were wrong about a view, though those who do like 20 interviews in a week and they contradict eachother is a different thing, such as that Waffle House one.

[Kralizec]

Never really understood the American obsession of taking a quote from the 1980's and using it to discredit an opponent 20 years later in completely different circumstances.

Never understood it? You don't remember your tirade against flip-flopping about two years ago, when you were new to the backroom?