Also, sealioning is “just asking questions” (JAQ’ing off). Consistently interrogating a position or POV for example, with request for evidence. Not asking someone to provide some sort of evidence for a single claim they made in reply to another user and refused to find evidence for their claim.

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning ) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I’m just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter

Emphasis mine. From wiki. I appreciate the attempt to deescalate though and accept it’s probably time to pack it in with that particular user.