The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[billd91]

If all you’re posting is your hate-watching a show, time to ignore.

 

[Deset Gled]

Is there a name for a three prong version of Poe's law where you can't tell if the person posting is serious, joking, or trolling?

 

[Ryujin]

Is there a name for a three prong version of Poe's law where you can't tell if the person posting is serious, joking, or trolling?

The joking/trolling are considered a single aspect. Both are looking for a reaction; just a different one.

EDIT - We had rather lengthy discussions about Poe's Law on the Zombie Orpheus Discord channel, when "Dark Dungeons" was released

 

[eyeheartawk]

Is there a name for a three prong version of Poe's law where you can't tell if the person posting is serious, joking, or trolling?

That means the banter is working as designed.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Is there a name for a three prong version of Poe's law where you can't tell if the person posting is serious, joking, or trolling?

The true difficulty is that, for the most part, the difference between trolling, joking, and serious is usually just intent.

The exact same sentence can be any one of the those three things.

I would go even further, and say that even once you differentiate between "serious" and "not serious," you still have the further complication (pace @Ryujin ) of the difference between a joke and a troll. Which ... I mean, other than saying that a troll is done with malicious intent, and a joke isn't, what have you got?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Eh, re-adopting the "the three strikes and you're out" policy.

Less angering of the blood.

 

[CleverNickName]

Eh, re-adopting the "the three strikes and you're out" policy.

Less angering of the blood.

Yeah, I had to dip out of that thread a while ago. My rule is once people start talking more about the argument itself than the topic of the thread, I'm late for the door.

I guess some people honestly believe that if they can't win the argument, they should start arguing about the argument itself.

"No, a six-part Toulmin argument is the superior way to argue! I find the Rogerian binary a bit too restrictive and frankly, it's just too tame for how deeply offended your argument has made me! And I swear to Pelor, the next person who comes in here with a weak narrative argument is going to get an earfull!"

 

[Cadence]

Wow did some folks put on their cranky pants this morning!

 

[RealAlHazred]

Wow did some folks put on their cranky pants this morning!

Look, I'm old. The cranky pants are just the regular pants, hitched way up under my armpits.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Wow did some folks put on their cranky pants this morning!

There are other types of pants?