this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
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What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn't heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I couldn't appreciate the visual sea lion anymore.What is gish galloping, which I would also appreciate a visual reference for if available.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Gish galloping is talking over the person you're arguing with to tire them out and / or interrupt them

Commenting with long text walls asking someone to refute this or that or respond to a series of questions is usually the online equivalent of that

You​ ​​ever ​​​see​ ​​those​ ​​comment​ ​​chains ​​​with vеgаns constantly responding to someone until the person they're responding to gives up, that can be considered Gish-galloping

Obviously with online comments you can't talk while another person is talking