Kimmo
February 16, 2014, 1:41am
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AnonyMouse:
I also think that there is a world of difference between flaming someone in a juvenile manner, or being stalkerish online, which any fuckwit can do, and actively exposing someone’s cognitive dissonance in a way that they cannot avoid. The latter is what I’d describe as driving trollies. The former is just harassment, just as it would be in the physical world. A trolley is trying to push you into a position where you concede the point or stick your fingers in your ears and go ‘lalala I don’t want to think’.
Um, that’s not driving trollies, that’s plain old debate.
AnonyMouse:
All of the techniques you mention, and more besides, are typical methods of argument or of rhetoric - regardless of the fact that they are rarely relevant nor elevate the debated subject towards truth. In fact it’s quite normal for people to engage in such fallacious forms of argumentation quite innocently, without even recognising that they are doing so.
So it’s obviously a question of intent, which can be ascertained by determining if any instance is isolated or part of a pattern. And dodgy methods of argument employed by non-trollies should be quashed too.
Fucking love @bardfinn ’s nifty idea.
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