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An excellent education.

Posted by: gabriel
Date posted: Fri, 20 Jun 1997

All right, class! From my previous posts, I have outlined a few basic MS-advocate tactics. Let us review:

1) Misrepresentation. Using this tactic, the MS-advocate claims to be a user of a competing platform to gain "legitimacy" for pro-MS arguments.

2) Popularity equation. Using this technique, the MS-advocate implies that MS is a safe choice, as it is more popular, and MS is a successful company, where its competitiors are neither.

3) Emotional involvement. Here the MS-advocate brands all those who are advocates of other products as "zealots", or "self-riteous".

4) Petty insult. The MS-advocate will mix childish taunts in pro-MS arguments in order to draw his opponent into a flame-war. Such flames bolster the "Emotional Involvement" tactic, and draws attention away from the real issues.

Pop quiz! Can you find one of each of the classic MS-advocate tactics in the previoius post? Gold star for the first to reply with the correct answer!


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