Eccitaze ,
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Yeah, happy to help. Sealioning really fucking sucks, because the only ways to counter it are:

  • Insult the troll until they go away

  • Refuse to play their game and give short, pithy responses without doing any research (or not linking the research you did)

  • Ignore the troll entirely

  • Copy your response and paste it whenever you see the troll asking the same question (which someone is doing in this very thread)

  • Create and maintain a collection of ready-to-go arguments with citations that you can copy/paste at the drop of a hat, which is a fair bit of work in of itself

In case it's not obvious, most of the counters for sealioning look almost exactly like trolling itself, and it's almost impossible to tell a sealion from someone apart looking for a legitimate discussion at first glance--short of keeping track of individual usernames and watching them in multiple threads, the only way to know if someone is a sealion for sure is for at least one person to feed the troll at least one good response. It's what makes sealioning such an insidious technique, because fighting a sealion almost always results in a lower quality of discussion itself, giving the sealion another type of victory.

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