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Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:00:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jason J. Railton writes:
You're right.  It sucks.  It's the easiest subject to fall into debating
because there's always a good supply of whackos with way-out ideas to fire
things up.  Plus no-one's actually going to listen and change their views,
and no-one's got any proof, so you can just keep going on ad infinitum.

Well-put.  I couldn't have trolled any better myself!

Cheers,
- jsproat

"trolled", "strawman" - what language are you half-cut bunch of muppets
using here anyway?

So if you really want to make a good point in a debate, that no one can
argue with, you just make up your own language to do it in - is that it?

j450n

[Why_n0t_ju57_d0_7h3_wh013_7hing_in_1337?]



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
 
(...) "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional responses. "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of picking your (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
 
(...) Trolling is what you attempted immediately above: trolling for reactions on the internet rather than trolling for fish in a lake. A "strawman" is not a made-up term: from Encarta Dictionary, "unimportant issue or person: an issue or person of (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
 
(...) Well-put. I couldn't have trolled any better myself! Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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