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Because at some point you decide that some threshold is useful to have, and stop sealioning on the internet about it
by dymk 3y ago
Because at some point you decide that some threshold is useful to have, and stop sealioning on the internet about it
- voisin 3y agoThis is the first I’ve heard the term sealioning. Just looked it up and man, it feels like one of those foreign words that perfectly describe something that we encounter all the time. Thanks!
- robertlagrant 3y agoDoesn't seem to relate to the Wikipedia definition: > Sealioning 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, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter
- voisin 3y agoWell, I agree it isn’t the perfect context but it isn’t wholly out of left field either, depending on the user’s interpretation of the previous poster’s quibbling over age.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI don't think so. No one was asking for facts/evidence.
- ViktorRay 3y agoI disagree that the poster you replied to was “sealioning”. It seems he was using rhetorical questions to try to make an argument. Basically he was following The Socratic Method. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method Essentially using questions to challenge assumptions in the form of argumentative dialogue. This is a legitimate form of having a debate and it has been used for thousands of years. To compare it to the internet trolling practice of sealioning where somebody just asks for evidence repeatedly is disingenuous
- robertlagrant 3y agoAgreed. If something like "sealioning" is first order bad faith argumentation, this falsly accusing someone of doing it, hoping observers don't notice the difference, is second order bad faith.
- dymk 3y agoIt's a bunch of rapid-fire questions about a topic that's been well trodden, and on top of that just a bunch of whattaboutisms. It's classic sealioning.