Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks

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• Pyro@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL

  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.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[10] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[1] which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.[2]

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s actually a strategy of spreading bullshit and then somehow blaming the person who asks you to back it up.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I’m kind of mixed on this concept, because there is nothing wrong with asking for a source and/or asking someone to explain their position. And it seems like a really bad idea to discourage people from asking questions like that.

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    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah. I strongly dislike this whole classification that politely asking someone to back up what they said, or asking basic questions about it, is proof that you’re a terrible person and grounds for immediately quitting the conversation.

      It also strikes me as relevant that the same people who say it is a sin, also tend to have no problem with overtly toxic behavior like slinging extreme abuse at anyone who disagrees with them or otherwise being an asshole.

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  • inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you have a source for this ? Just trying to understand

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  • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A lot of people don’t know what it is which the sealions use to their advantage so recognising it is a sealion’s kryptonite lol. glad it helped!

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• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice idea, but not sure I’ll follow. Nowadays I just try to ignore sealions and move on.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I didn’t know it had a name. I have seen this so much on Lemmy lately.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No offense, but where have you seen this? I haven’t noticed anything like this

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    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol, good one.

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