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I've never been a fan of the term sea lioning precisely because of that characteristic of the comic. People who expect to go through the world declaring strong
by kethinov 6y ago
I've never been a fan of the term sea lioning precisely because of that characteristic of the comic.
People who expect to go through the world declaring strong opinions and then immediately refusing to explain it or engage with counterarguments are pretty annoying too.
Imagine this conversation:
A: "Ruby has better performance than Node.js!"
B: "I hadn't heard that, can you provide some evidence of this claim?"
A: "Shoo, troll! Being asked to provide evidence is harrassment! Stop sea lioning me!"
A bit of a caricature, but I've seen plenty of conversations that follow that basic structure. In that case, person A is the troll, not person B.
- notahacker 6y agoThe original comic is pretty clear that it's the repeated attempts to engage with someone clearly uninterested in debate "Aha! A whole day has passed and you have provided no evidence of the superior performance of Ruby on the other thread." that marks the sealions out. The other side to the comic is that the original throwaway remark sounds a bit hard to justify, until we see the sealions. Anybody who's ever made a throwaway remark about how X is like a cult or Y has obsessive fanboys and got bogged down in replies from people politely insisting actually we're completely normal, now please refute all 27 points about why X and Y are better can relate... Also its a Godwin-law type internet regularity, not a cast iron behavioural rule. Sometimes making comparisons to Nazis or calling out serial posters of provocative statements is actually appropriate