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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, that's pretty much what I figured you'd say. The down vote was a nice touch.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have this odd quirk of downvoting sealions when they ask bad faith questions with obvious answers that they refuse to accept. I'm kooky like that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you distinguish between a good faith question and “sealioning”?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A good faith question is when you're honestly seeking clarification either because you don't know something or don't know what the other person means.

Sealioning is when you're "just asking questions" in a manipulative manner with no intention of taking the answers seriously under consideration or making a valid point of your own.

It's often used in place of an actual argument when the sea lion knows that their point isn't strong enough to withstand scrutiny.

Here's the origin of the term afaik:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

defining is when you decide or declare that a certain string of words is equivalent to a word.

distinguishing is when you decide or declare which of two categories a particular thing is in

I know the definition of these words. I’m asking you distinguish, as you read comments on the internet, which are which kind?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Subtle, I like it