• Whiskey Pickle
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    Sealioning

    Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.

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        “i know your are but what am i?” is not an effective form of argument.

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          Is this some sort of new devatebro bot? Not very advanced, always says the same.

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            there’s only so many responses one can make to the same circular argument.

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              This just makes the thread unreadable then

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                tell it to the guy making the same, logically-fallacious, circular argument, over and over.

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                  Which argument? I can’t see any arguments here, only random wikipedia articles