Sealioning is when someone pretends to be interested but acts in bad faith to wear out and exhaust whoever they’re responding to. Discuss

  • Custoslibera@lemmy.world
    112·
    10 months ago

    Depends how generous or cynically you apply ‘bad faith’.

    I’ve never experienced it on Lemmy but then again I don’t usually entertain people who, to me, obviously have little understanding of the topic at hand.

    When it’s something I have little knowledge about I tend to lurk if I can or I’ll be more easily swayed one way or the other. If I care enough I go do my own research.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      412·
      10 months ago

      Look up [email protected] , if they haven’t deleted it all by now. I kept most of my replies up. I’m still a little shocked

      Edit: most of it was upvoted but wasn’t enough to save it from removed by moderator

      Good moderator :)

      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
        164·
        10 months ago

        oh my god, did you make a whole post to vague blog about me?

        Thats actually genuinely very adorable

        For the passers by, Im a “sea lion” because I dont agree with cheese’s belief that the apollo dev is obligated to make their work open source.

        And, I guess, they dont like how much I swear? Didnt think a few fucks was a big deal between adults, guess I was wrong? I dunno, this is hilarious harassment tho

        • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee
          51·
          10 months ago

          Dude, this has got to make you like, at least, a minor celebrity. Normies don’t get pissy posts made about them.

          • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
            41·
            10 months ago

            For accidentally disagreeing with someone who takes everything way too far? Nah, he will be the celeb. Apparently he has a history of this. Im just his most recent target

            • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
              6·
              10 months ago

              I didnt delete anything. As a rule, I dont delete comments. Its pointless in an age of archival.

              Now, lemmy sometimes has a moderation glitch when mods across instances removing comments actually removes the comment from the profile of the user.

              It also happens sometimes when a post updates from one instance version and overwrites the version your comment was on.

              Kind of annoying, but lemmy is young.