PSA: Sealioning - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

Could I have more pixels?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Haha, oops, copied the thumbnail.

Bonus:

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Second one seems more like an example of kafkatrapping

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 3 weeks 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