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... ;)
