Several people here are conflating steelmanning with strawmanning, but the latter is, at best, an attempt to make a bad argument out of how the other person cho

Several people here are conflating steelmanning with strawmanning, but the latter is, at best, an attempt to make a bad argument out of how the other person chose to express their position, and it is downhill from there, with tricks like willful misunderstanding, the introduction of non-sequiturs, and claims of tacit premises that were never intended. Steelmanning can also be used as preemptive self-defense for your position, assuming that it is actually defensible (if it is not, the sooner you come to that conclusion, the better for all concerned, especially yourself.)