Hi all. Recently I’ve noticed a few individuals who engage with this forum clearly in bad faith. The best way to handle them, is to simply not engage. Ignore them and they leave. Respond, and they get what they wanted (wasting your time). If the person you’re engaging in dialogue with is acting in bad faith, there is nothing gained by continuing the comment thread for dozens of replies.
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There's some that are just obvious bad taste trolls where you shouldn't engage, you're wasting your time. The worst of those was when we had porn spam posts a while back.
Then there's individuals where, I wouldn't say they operate in bad faith, it's just they are so dogmatic in their opinions that it aggravates anyone not 100% onboard and leads to essentially people assuming bad faith because of how they postband comment.
Like they can post something that's so dogmatic that it pisses most people off then post something benign that gets massive down votes because of their previous posts whereas I could post the same benign thing and I'll be fine. There's no helping that as they aren't breaking rules just being a jackass in how they approach people.
Yes, there are some here who are impossible to reason with.
That's definitely a good example of a strawman that the impossible-to-reason-with use a lot.