BigLance, go peel your pride off the ground and take a hike. Make it easy for yourself. Do you realize how long it's going to take you to overcome this? Blatant bias, tampering with a poll to skew the results -- you're basically ostracized here at AnandTech. If it took fkloster months just for us to forgive him an extravagant purchase, imagine how much quality time you'll have to put in before people here even value a word you say. . . It's not even worth it. Just leave. Find another forum to infect.
As for your confused attempt to justify your treachery with the poll, it barely deserves a response, but anyways:
You are now claiming that the neutral position (that AMD and Intel are fairly close in stability) is not a valid opinion. That is dead wrong because, not only is it a perfectly valid opinion, it also happens to be the correct opinion, as has been proven several dozen times by various facts and expert opinions cited in this thread. For you to only remove this option when it was clear your argument was in shreds is not only deceitful but despicable.
<< Equal is a neutral position... >>
Not in your case. You said that the majority of people would believe Intel to be more stable. Now, regardless of the facts (which proved you wrong from the start), the majority of people did not agree that Intel was more stable. Neither did they agree that AMD was more stable. Rather, the majority (correctly) believed that both platforms were fairly equal, thus proving you wrong once again.
I can explain this in as many different ways as it takes for you to comprehend it, but you could save me a lot of typing by just admitting what everyone here already knows: that you were wrong from the start, and that AMD and Intel are equally stable. . .
And that you're sorry.
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