On 09/02/2016 10:19 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:23:58PM -0600, Mirimir wrote:
Hey, Juan is just the top troll here. Even if he honestly doesn't realize it. And it's hard to resist arguing with skillful trolls.
Two humans regularly publicly and skillfully (or otherwise) abusing each other with words, I guess can be named trolling. At least, that part of the "conversation". As entertaining as some might find it .. :)
No, that's just arguing. What distinguishes trolling is picking fights to disrupt a community. Juan, for example, is very clever, and skilled at rhetoric. He consistently dances away, turning the argument away from any possible resolution.
Is that "conversation" which sidetracks debate on political philosophy with straw men, fascist statism dressed up as 'collective self responsibility' and outright misunderstanding (to be generous) or misconstruing (to be less generous) of terms used (such as 'individual sovereignty) using false dichotomies and raising of irrelevancies, could this type of "communication" be considered a more significant, perhaps even more sinister, type of trolling?
Well, trolling does tend to generate counter trolling ;)
Just wondering...
;)