Squirm all you want but no, posting provocative stuff you don’t even believe just to test it out or see what reactions you get might be “normal” for you, but as others in that earlier thread rightly labeled it, it’s trolling. It contributes to ruining the message board experience.
There are all kinds of forum tools and other tools we use in our daily lives that are not intended to be used in the way you do, to throw out shit and then erase your tracks. You can own it, accidentally or not, as you already have (in more than just the one post I happened to save), or choose to be a better, more “normal” board citizen, or not.
I don’t make the rules. But there’s no rule against holding someone accountable on a message board. You do you.
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Maybe this will help you. The point to arguing positions you don’t agree with is to better understand all aspects of an argument. I can argue your position without strawmanning your argument. . I don’t think you can argue mine without strawmanning. Ie, to argue your positions I just have to present inaccurate versions of whatever you’re arguing against. When I read through this thread, I mostly skimmed/skipped your posts because the arguments you make are typically not relevant to the argument you’re trying to counter. I’m not ripping you. This is a very common problem and, in particular, in politically charged arguments where the most common strategy is a strawman.
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