You? Rule 16'd? NEVER! Honestly, I've never looked at the rules... Let me see... Oh, yeah, I guess that kinda-sorta checks out.
What you encountered there is the /b/ mantra of "I'll argue with anyone about anything!"
A lot of "handshake" accounts, too, so I think it was a raid of some sort, gone out of control because "I'll argue with anyone about anything" went awry? I certainly contributed, because I type really fast and I enjoy dumpster fires, and thought some of the people advocating for authoritarianism and militarized police states were concerning when they weren't handshake accounts. Spend no more than 6 minutes on a post, that is, 500 words. And the replies I get for pointing out their slippery slope and defense of thoughtcrime prosecution? "Figures a Canadian Frenchman would say that".
Not proper logical debate being applied at all, no discourse, no Socratic dialogue! They weren't even fun trolls you can verbally fence with for a while.
So someone, pick a topic, I'll advocate for the opposite and defend it vociferously no matter what it is, let's see if we can recreate the shitstorm and do it properly!
EDIT: Actually, it's an overt concern. Seems the sub gets the most activity around six hours prior to this timestamp? I'll make a new topic of a Debate Practice Club, unless a mod whacks me down for it, because some people weren't Handshake accounts, but were debating horribly.
You? Rule 16'd? NEVER! Honestly, I've never looked at the rules... Let me see... Oh, yeah, I guess that kinda-sorta checks out.
What you encountered there is the /b/ mantra of "I'll argue with anyone about anything!"
A lot of "handshake" accounts, too, so I think it was a raid of some sort, gone out of control because "I'll argue with anyone about anything" went awry? I certainly contributed, because I type really fast and I enjoy dumpster fires, and thought some of the people advocating for authoritarianism and militarized police states were concerning when they weren't handshake accounts. Spend no more than 6 minutes on a post, that is, 500 words. And the replies I get for pointing out their slippery slope and defense of thoughtcrime prosecution? "Figures a Canadian Frenchman would say that".
Not proper logical debate being applied at all, no discourse, no Socratic dialogue! They weren't even fun trolls you can verbally fence with for a while.
So someone, pick a topic, I'll advocate for the opposite and defend it vociferously no matter what it is, let's see if we can recreate the shitstorm and do it properly!
You? Rule 16'd? NEVER! Honestly, I've never looked at the rules... Let me see... Oh, yeah, I guess that kinda-sorta checks out.
What you encountered there is the /b/ mantra of "I'll argue with anyone about anything!"
A lot of "handshake" accounts, too, so I think it was a raid of some sort, gone out of control because "I'll argue with anyone about anything" went awry? I certainly contributed, because I type really fast and I enjoy dumpster fires, and thought some of the people advocating for authoritarianism and militarized police states were concerning when they weren't handshake accounts.