when you ask a question and fourteen people dogpile and accuse you of sealioning (breaks rule 7)
or you misspeak and correct yourself with an apology and get hit with HAHA SO WHICH IS IT YOU CANT EVEN GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT
What's Sealioning?
It's exactly what you're doing, you... marine mammal! [I'm joking.]
Serious now, this Wikipedia page has an amazing definition:
Rhetorically, sealioning fuses persistent questioning—often about basic information, information easily found elsewhere, or unrelated or tangential points—with a loudly-insisted-upon commitment to reasonable debate. It disguises itself as a sincere attempt to learn and communicate. Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target's patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. While the questions of the "sea lion" may seem innocent, they're intended maliciously and have harmful consequences.
So it's basically "I'll keep trying to engage you in a debate, because eventually you'll lose patience and shut up".
I think you actually know what sealioning is and you are asking this question in bad faith. Please show some simple evidence that you were not trying to start a flame war.
It describes people who act like the sealion in this webcomic. Essentially, harassing someone online by bombarding them with requests to have a discussion about a topic. The person doesn't actually want to have a genuine discussion, they just want to argue.
Oh shit, Wondermark is great - I used to read this all the time, but David Malki! took a break and I hadn't realized he had started up again.
That's what a sealion would say
This is all I need to comfort me that Lemmy isn't as big as Reddit.
happens even in the small places. source: mustard fan 😔
As above, so below