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

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

The origin of the term:

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

Could I have more pixels?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haha, oops, copied the thumbnail.

Bonus:

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Second one seems more like an example of kafkatrapping

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 2 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@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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?"

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

🤣

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

See, this is why I very much enjoy being a grown-ass adult and an asshole.

I get to tell those fuckers to go fuck themselves, then block them (online), throw them out (in my house), leave (outside my house), shoot them (if they try to follow me into my house).

People don't realize that not everything anyone says is a fucking debate. It's okay to tell people to bugger off into the sunset, that you aren't debating.