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> legitimate desire for truth or someone just looking to poke holes in the post What is the difference?

• saagarjha 3y ago
  Anger.
  • forward1 3y ago
    You're right. We must be civilized and restrained from emotion. All anger is to be reserved for "Hate Week".
• ceejayoz 3y ago
  Good versus bad faith. The person looking for truth will likely go "thanks!" when receiving the clarification or additional info they were searching for. The person looking to poke holes will move onto the next trumped-up quibble and force someone to knock that down too. Repeat ad infinitum until people get fed up and you can claim victory. (for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968969) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop As the (ironically, probably not) Churchill quote goes: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."