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PSA: Sealioning - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I have only run across “sealioning” on Lemmy, and in my experience it is usually a way of accusing people of (a) being polite in a disagreement which is obviously a bad thing (b) asking for evidence of what someone’s saying, which is obviously a bad thing.

I have literally never seen it applied in the form where someone is actually being obnoxious, chasing a person into other threads, asking for evidence that has already been provided, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Has your instance blocked hexbear? Because they do this a lot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Both hexbear and lemmygrad have blocked me, as far as I can tell, which I think means I’m winning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Like "gaslighting", the term is more often used incorrectly than correctly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'd argue it's highly present in irl "debates:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAEDLjwO7I

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Could I have more pixels?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Haha, oops, copied the thumbnail.

Bonus:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Second one seems more like an example of kafkatrapping

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And another guy--another guy gets up, and he says to this other guy, "You lack basic confidence."

You can't come back from that. Once you're told that, it only gets worse as you try to say, "No! I DO have confidence!"

-Greg Fitzsimmons

[–] PrimarilyPrimate 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pixels. How can you have any pixels if you don't eat yer meat?"