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minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOk, true. I am only recently learning of that technique. Good point, though. I’ll update my guidance to mention sealioning and add a tip on knowing when to recognize it and quit.
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI like to think of sealioning, traditional fact based refuting, and old-fashioned trolling as the rock-paper-scissors of online arguments. Facts beat trolls, sealions beat facts, trolls beat sealions.
minus-squareAdmiral Patrick@dubvee.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI love that analogy and will probably steal it xD
Ok, true. I am only recently learning of that technique.
Good point, though. I’ll update my guidance to mention sealioning and add a tip on knowing when to recognize it and quit.
I like to think of sealioning, traditional fact based refuting, and old-fashioned trolling as the rock-paper-scissors of online arguments. Facts beat trolls, sealions beat facts, trolls beat sealions.
I love that analogy and will probably steal it xD