I remember my FIL asking each one if they were trying to supplement a living or if they were purely a for-profit capitalist venture taking advantage of an opportunity at an anti-capitalist protest.

Out of curiosity, how would he draw that line? When does it stop counting as a living and start being a purely for-profit venture?

Yeah, but how do you qualify that?

They have a high alcohol diet?

I’m asking how people intend to use that number.

Do you have a clear way of defining “clickbait” or is it just vibes?

Um, I think you mean octopodes.

Fun fact, there’s a Wikipedia article that comes up for “plurals of words ending in -us” with a section jus for octopus.

Sounds like a more concise description of my same strategy, yeah.

…AI generated jeans spammers? What did I miss?

What about comments?

Hey, man, don’t shit on my corsets and hats.

When I was like 8, I allegedly … Illegally acquired… A beanie baby. I … may have just carried it out of a mall while Christmas shopping.

This is all hypothetical, of course. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a tiny stuffed ferret was as close as I was going to get to owning a ferret. That would be silly.

I’m with you. I wouldn’t think it was happening until it already happened.

Disagreeing is fine, but fallacious arguments aren’t. I feel it’s important to be able to understand why you believe what you do, or at least not to expect others to agree with you if you can’t. Fallacious arguments are not good reasons to believe something, and outright false ones are even worse.

Holding an opinion I disagree with is fine, it’s when you tell me my opinion is wrong and offer only bad reasoning to convince me that it’s a problem.

It’s bad because of the, like, stalking/prodding people until they engage part of it. Just like JAQing, it starts with a pretense of doing no wrong. This means sometimes it’s possible to accuse someone of it when they’re acting in good faith because what they said closely resembles others who have acted in bad faith.

I think in my mind trolling has to be perpetrated in bad faith, i.e. your stated intentions and actual intentions are at least different and quite possibly contrary. Doesn’t sound like you were trolling.

Yeah, I guess. I can take a joke pretty well, even when I don’t think it’s funny, so other kinds of trolling are just pretty whatever to me.

That tracks, I suppose. Kinda makes me want to help somehow…

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Trolls are just bullies, I guess.

I guess that’s the root of it. I don’t really understand the mentality of bullies.

Like, the kid who gets picked on and stays picking on the smaller kids when he gets bigger because his home life sucks and that’s just always the way it’s been for him… I maybe get it, but I don’t think anyone thinks that’s a good way to be, and they can stop once they start interacting with a better social group and see how it can be better. Right?

Is it really just that but online, or what have you? Idgi

Oh, or “just asking questions” and sealioning. I’d pretty much universally consider those to be trolling.