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Harry Potter Vs. Twilight Question

Why are there so many biased options here?

As in the creator of a pick coaxing you toward a specific answer.

('m not going to link to any actual example, but it's obvious they're all over this spot)

FICTIONAL EXAMPLE: "Who's the stronger guy? The marvelous, strong minded Harry, or the weak, girly-looking Edward?"
^something like this is obviously encouraging people to select Harry.

I was under the impression that this spot was intended to be a place for debate between two equally creditable book series. What goes on here is not what a debate is.

I was expecting to see fair questions with options featuring neutral connotations. (Either that, or all options have either all negative or all positive connotations.)

Is it that people just don't know, or are too immature to give the other side any respect?
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i totally agree with you... i was wondering the same things.. :)
tWiLiGht_lUVEr1 posted over a year ago
 cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Italktosnakes said:
Meh, I don't really know, or care to be quite honest. Most people on here are relatively young, and they therefore have no need to be too mature. As a person who has to live through crap most of the time, I enjoy coming on her and having a laugh. I would much rather spend my time enjoying myself with my mates on here, than having to justify myself and others as to why we may not be up to your high standards of maturity. I suggest that you get off your high horse. You may actually enjoy yourself on this spot. You'll find most of these people are nice, once you get over a 'immaturity' (although I do not believe we are overly immature to be quite honest)
Peace out y'all :) xx

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posted over a year ago 
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A+ response.
justliveitlive posted over a year ago
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Do you do that thing when you have to do English Coursework at school? Cause my school do that now, but I have the older version thats easier. :) x
Italktosnakes posted over a year ago
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Love the answer!! :D
Ms_Mea posted over a year ago
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HecateA said:
The answers above me have summed it all up.

But may I add, Cassie, if you're looking for something to point out at this spot that's wrong, you can find way worst then biased picks. Mostly when we try to keep order we'll pay more attention to CF (comment fights) then a biased pick, mostly because many of the people here are stuck to their fanbases solid as rock. If you said "hot edward" and "harry", sure as heck I'd pick Harry, even if his name doesn't have "hawt" "gorgeous" or "marbly" in front of it. (sure I tend not to answer the shallow questions, but meh)

Its also a marketing technique. You make the option you want people to pick (because by debating which is better, its for some people a story of growing the fanbase) look better by adding "hawt" in front of the option (now to learn how to spell hot...)

Also, Harry's hotness is the least of his awesome features, while hotness is all Edward's 'got'. Let Edward win this one, its the only one he will. :P (see, my answer is pro-potter, it just happens)
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Ms_Mea said:
Um, I hate pointing this out, but the way you presented this question seems a little biased...I mean, you only gave one example, and it was againt HP. How about adding an example that goes againt Twilight as well to even things out? I mean you have to admit, even if we do questions like this, Twilighters do it too (I'm not saying any more or any less)
Anyways, to answer your question, as long as this is a VS spot, there's going to be bashing of the opposite team. Also, I've never met a person who's mind is so changeable that they see an extra adjective in front of their hated character and then go, "Oh, I love them now!"
Ex. An anti goes, "Oh, it says dorky Harry Potter or sexy Edward Cullen! I'm going with Edward!"
OR
An Twihard goes, "Oh, it's either nice Hermione or silly Alice! I'm going with Hermione!"
No one does that, because no one really cares. It doesn't effect their choice, so their is no need to pay attention really
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bri-marie said:
Couple of things:

First, yes, there are many biased and immature picks/photos/articles/images/videos/whatever. But this is the internet and maturity isn't exactly at the top of everyone's list.

Second, what exactly do you expect a bunch of bored, teenage, anti-Twilight-ers to do? This spot is practically over-run with anti/HP fans. Do you know how often a reasonable Twifan comes over here and actually debates? It's a rarity.
They're bored and want to, not only keep this spot going, but keep themselves entertained. Cut them a little slack.
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Exactly! One of the best answers! :D
Ms_Mea posted over a year ago
Lacerta3 said:
I agree with that. I personally am not a Twi-fan. The maker has a right to like one of them better, but the picks are supposed to remain unbiased. It prevents online drama and it makes the maker look more mature. So I definitely agree with you on this subject.
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Thank you for understanding.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
teamsalvatore98 said:
I totally agree. Truth is, I love both (twilight saga and harry potter) I even went to see the Deathly Hallows on the day it came out and last night (it's past 12:00 am here GF =P). I saw Eclipse twi, too. And New Moon. And I'll probably end up seeing part 2 of Deathly Hallows twice and Breaking Dawn (part one and two) twice. Some people don't know -or are too immature- to see that twilight and harry potter (i see the battles everywhere-Facebook,Fanpop,Youtube etc etc. It's actually quite annoying) And I realize that this is based mostly on opinion, but they are all great books and calling Harry big and cool (even though he is younger than Edward/Robert Pattinson) is VERY biased. And calling Edward big and cool because he's a vampire and could kill Harry by sucking his blood, is equally biased. I can't agree any more with you.
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Thank you for understanding.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
mrs_robertp said:
Okay, fine maybe we go a little far sometimes, but not always are we saying the other side stinks. Sure, its about debate, but sometimes people tend to forget about that and express their own opinion without a fact.
So, no, I just refuse to answer them.
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emilyroxx said:
Hmmmm...This seems like it's directed towards HP fans, but I've seen (many) biased questions on both sides of the fandom. I personally don't post questions like that, but I've seen a lot of questions that say: "Who's hotter? JAKOB! DUHHHH or harry."
I guess that there will always be people like that, and there's nothing that we can do about that. I've noticed that most Twilighters have stopped posting quiz questions, so that might be the reason that this spot seems biased. If you want to change that, start posting stuff! As long as you're not annoying, we'd appreciate more sensible Twilight fans on here.
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I didn't mean to ignore your answer, if you feel i did. i just had nothing intelligent to say at the time. I'd rather say nothing that something stupid. your answer makes sense, so I had no rebuttle.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Also, I only commented on those that agreed because they were the only answered at the time and I wanted to get them in the updates so more people would answer.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Oh, okay.
emilyroxx posted over a year ago
PotterForever said:
Well, it's mostley got to do with the fact that there are a lot of antis on this spot, and not very many Twi-fans. So, naturally, the majority of the spot is very pro-Potter. But a while ago, there were a lot of Twi-fans here, and some of the picks were just as biasd, only the other way. It's just part of the way the spot is, because it's a "vs" spot, people bash the other side. I'm not saying it's right, and I'm not saying it's wrong, it's just what happens when a spot is divided into two sides.
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I love it how Cassie's only responding to the ones that either agree with her, or say something stupid. The answers that actually have a point are getting ignored.
emilyroxx posted over a year ago
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ikr? I'd really like to know just who she thinks she is.
lucius_malloy posted over a year ago
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^Makes sense
youknowit101 posted over a year ago
lucius_malloy said:
I'd just like to say that a lot of the pro-Potter questions sprung up because Antis were fed up with all the pro-Twilight ones.

And another thing I'd like to say is that this question is actually rather biased.

The third and last thing I want to say is that you really need a sense of humour, or maybe to get laid. Who exactly do you think you are, anyway?

And now for something traditional:
Here's your hole. See? It even has your name on it! C-A-S-S-I-E. Now, I trust you know what to do with it... If not, you're really beyond any and all help.
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posted over a year ago 
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XD
emilyroxx posted over a year ago
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^^^ that's... mature?
1-2vampire posted over a year ago
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who're you talking to/about?
lucius_malloy posted over a year ago
MissKnowItAll said:
I guess because it's a debate spot, so most people have strong opinions. As to why they let them spill through into pick options, well I don't know. Maybe it's just human nature.

At any rate, what does it matter? Yes, it's annoying, but people know what they think and a slightly biased pick option isn't going to change that.
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It doesn't really. I just say stuff sometimes.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Pardon? I don't understand what you're saying.
MissKnowItAll posted over a year ago
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muggles... tss...
HecateA posted over a year ago
1-2vampire said:
I agree, I'm not a Twilight fan, but it's still unfair. I know I may say that people who think Twilight's amazing and Harry Potter sucks have issues, but that's only because I haven't seen any of these people give valid reasons as to why this is.
But biased picks does annoy me a little. But what are you gonna do, most of the people on here are teenagers, and teenagers aren't the most mature people.
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youknowit101 said:
what a bunch of ingrates
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