Yeah, I do think there’s value in calling them out so that others can see and hopefully more people will learn how to spot them and see them for what they are.
But it always seems to lead to a shit show of them recycling the same old stale fallacies and personal attacks. Maybe I’m getting better at parrying them more effectively, but it still burns me out after a while. And sometimes they say things that really get under my skin.
I’m concerned that if I simply block them and don’t read their response, then they’ll craft it to make me look like an idiot/asshole to anyone who doesn’t understand the context of the situation. So I parry and riposte until I’m confident that anyone reading knows who the troll is
I always thought pretty much this exact same way. I just cannot do it anymore though. I gotta block them, and even though I agree that it can lead to a lack of challenges to their doomspreading, it may be better for us as a community if we just block liberally. The mods often side with them and I really have no time to tear them down point by point anyhow. 2020 honestly broke me on even trying to do that. People like that will ignore everything they cannot deny and come back with a personal attack, as you said. If enough people block these users, maybe their campaigns will start to feel futile and they’ll either stop or dial it down.
If enough people block these users, maybe their campaigns will start to feel futile and they’ll either stop or dial it down.
I don’t know, as long as this platform is still growing, that just means new users will have to wade through a swamp before they find their way to stable ground.
Maybe it’s like purgatory, except the circles of hell are constantly reaching their tendrils in to snatch down anyone they can get ahold of. Sarlacc must feed.
It reminds me of these, in which the demons obviously represent tankies [edit: (and, more broadly, also maga and any other style of authoritarian/reactionary extremism)]:
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Buy hey, maybe enough people are catching on that you and I are no longer needed. Let someone else swat the tankies away for a while…
Yeah, I do think there’s value in calling them out so that others can see and hopefully more people will learn how to spot them and see them for what they are.
But it always seems to lead to a shit show of them recycling the same old stale fallacies and personal attacks. Maybe I’m getting better at parrying them more effectively, but it still burns me out after a while. And sometimes they say things that really get under my skin.
I’m concerned that if I simply block them and don’t read their response, then they’ll craft it to make me look like an idiot/asshole to anyone who doesn’t understand the context of the situation. So I parry and riposte until I’m confident that anyone reading knows who the troll is
I always thought pretty much this exact same way. I just cannot do it anymore though. I gotta block them, and even though I agree that it can lead to a lack of challenges to their doomspreading, it may be better for us as a community if we just block liberally. The mods often side with them and I really have no time to tear them down point by point anyhow. 2020 honestly broke me on even trying to do that. People like that will ignore everything they cannot deny and come back with a personal attack, as you said. If enough people block these users, maybe their campaigns will start to feel futile and they’ll either stop or dial it down.
I don’t know, as long as this platform is still growing, that just means new users will have to wade through a swamp before they find their way to stable ground.
Maybe it’s like purgatory, except the circles of hell are constantly reaching their tendrils in to snatch down anyone they can get ahold of. Sarlacc must feed.
It reminds me of these, in which the demons obviously represent tankies [edit: (and, more broadly, also maga and any other style of authoritarian/reactionary extremism)]:
more
Buy hey, maybe enough people are catching on that you and I are no longer needed. Let someone else swat the tankies away for a while…