Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-4881935-20130327060139/@comment-4087140-20130407231227

The5lacker wrote:

There's usually a reason if everyone else is doing, though.

There very well may be, but it remains that "everyone else is doing it" is not a valid justification. The5lacker wrote:

[...] and the only argument I've heard for diameter is "Well it's what I want."

Some people visualize diameter better than radius. Some people visualize radius better than diameter. Your own argument boils down to "other people do it, and I like it better"; we've established that the former is invalid, which results in the whole of your valid argument being "well it's what I want."

The reason this discussion isn't going anywhere it because it really is a sheer matter of opinion: neither side is objectively superior to the other, even if you feel that one side is. This is not a matter of "I don't like change," as has been claimed; if everyone here liked radius more than diameter, they wouldn't be arguing for diameter, and there wouldn't be a discussion in the first place.

The real point of conflict now is how to go about resolving which opinion to conform to.