Thread:NeonSpotlight/@comment-3017217-20150307200227/@comment-4091261-20150313184329

On the contrary, your posts are an attempt to persuade. The Volibear arguement was an attempt to persuade that the stats from Warmog's Armor, Mercury's Treads, and Elixir of Ruin is better than the stats on Righteous Glory, Boots of Swiftness, and Elixir of Iron. Also the claim that Volibear is a better jungler than a support is a claim for persuasion. The facts used were supporting details to a theory. It is a strong claim with very concrete support, but it is a claim, a theory. Therefore, it is persuasive.

NicknameMy gave a rebuttal. There would be no reason for a rebuttal if there wasn't a persuasive claim. NicknameMy also attempted compromise and changed his own build; he edited out Boots of Swiftness for Mercury's Treads.

From there the conversation was complete on his end. If you found further contradictions with his claim that Jungle Volibear was ineffective, then you would have been able to continue the conversation using that. Though you, Ntoulinho, yourself conceded that doing so would be impossible due to being in the other realm of PBE, where stats and items are different. So with that, the discussion remained complete and almost impossible to continue without new comment from a different person.

As a result, NicknameMy may have just ignored the notion of continuing due to the lack of clarity. I've noticed you have this problem a lot and there is actually a very simple way to fix it: create a new thesis statement in your replies. I've noticed that you try and tie your replies and supporting details back to the original thesis statement in your initial comment. The problem is that as replies from other users enter in, ideas change; and as ideas change, so must your thesis. Even if you maintain the same thought, you must orient your thesis towards the reason why your thoughts haven't changed. This allows others the analyze their fault in attempting to persuade your claim otherwise and allows them to revise their statement, if they wish to continue.