I don't know that I can entirely agree. There is a nuance to sealioning that the comic doesn't get into. I think the difference between reasoned discussion and

I don't know that I can entirely agree. There is a nuance to sealioning that the comic doesn't get into. I think the difference between reasoned discussion and sealioning is beginning from a good faith argument versus bad faith. If I say "sealions suck," and you ask me "what's your evidence for that," you aren't necessarily sealioning -- yet. I will agree there is a thin line, but that's how trolling works across the spectrum. If it was actually easy to troll well, it would probably be easy to block or filter. I think there's also a problem in the comic with the premise that isn't entirely explained -- "Sealions suck" wasn't an invitation to debate the issue. For a more real situation, if I see a feminist on Twitter exclaim "men suck!!!" and I respond with "well, what's your rationale for saying that" then I think I can definitively say that's sealioning, right off the bat. Sometimes you just need to blow off steam, and I think that's as okay to do on social media as it is anywhere else; not everything is an invitation to debate.