Healers need an overhaul

[Shurrikhan]

I've been in Internet forums since the Internet was DARPAnet and you needed permission from the DoD to connect to it. In all that time, one thing has never changed:

When your detractors on a thread post personal attacks to the exclusion of responding to your arguments,
When they admit to being afraid that other people will read your posts and believe what you posted, and
When they keep posting about you -- not your arguments, but you -- days after your last post,

That when you know you've won the argument.

Are you sure you're not mistaking others' having exhausted your arguments (having literally nothing else to say to or about them, especially since you refuse to meet anyone else's arguments, shift goal posts on a dime, regularly strawman, and generally attempt to poke at others' arguments through ambiguities of your own, probably intentional construction) with their excluding your arguments from the conversation?

Not really a surprise: winning rational arguments happens to be my profession these day, and my bosses and clients all say I'm good at it.

There's a mastery evidenced over your posts in this thread, but it certainly isn't the ability to win, or even progress, rational arguments.

Mastery of tropes, on the other hand? Sure. How to subtly fill lines on a bingo card themed around logical fallacies? Certainly.

[Nethereal]

Are you sure you're not mistaking others' having exhausted your arguments (having literally nothing else to say to or about them, especially since you refuse to meet anyone else's arguments, shift goal posts on a dime, regularly strawman, and generally attempt to poke at others' arguments through ambiguities of your own, probably intentional construction) with their excluding your arguments from the conversation?


There's a mastery evidenced over your posts in this thread, but it certainly isn't the ability to win, or even progress, rational arguments.

Mastery of tropes, on the other hand? Sure. How to subtly fill lines on a bingo card themed around logical fallacies? Certainly.

They follow a pretty simple formula.

Give argument, get proven wrong, respond with pedantry, ignore counter argument, I win, onto the next post.

I would probably win every argument I partake in as well If I did the same.

[Punslinger]

They follow a pretty simple formula.

Give argument, get proven wrong, respond with pedantry, ignore counter argument, I win, onto the next post.

I would probably win every argument I partake in as well If I did the same.

I move that we rename the Gish Gallop to the Silverbane Shuffle. Is there a second?