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Originally Posted by chezlaw
... and he said you were twisting his words...
Which is attacking me. To review: the only attack was from that fool, which he choose to spew for whatever reasons in an entirely unrelated thread. Of course that kinda cross-thread spewing should be discouraged. My only quibble was me being accused of making attacks too.
**** Generally Unrelated Point of Discussion ****
What we have here in this recent attack is an example of what I call "Strawman Trolling". This was a favorite tactic of the ACers back in the day. They would spew their spew. Us normals would try to make sense of their spew. They would accuse us normals of "strawmanning" them, often by posting a "STRAWMAN" meme without comment. They would also refuse to clarify their spew, of course, as avoiding doing so was their goal. And thus a thread was derailed.
Now, I know that unauthorized use of the r-word is allegedly the primary cause of derailed conversations (... if only the SJWers wouldn't be so mean, blah, blah, blah). But this kinda "strawman trolling" is also a cause of derailed conversations.
I propose that when someone thinks they are being misrepresented, they should be encouraged to: (a) ignore it, (b) clarify their comments to correct the mistake, (c) take it to a moderation thread if they feel this misrepresentation rises to an attack. Likewise, refusing to do any of the above, and instead attempting to derail a thread by "strawman trolling", should be sanctioned in the exact same manner as making personal attacks in a non /|\ thread.