I haven't read your posts, until this one, so this could be true. But this is the go to position of a lot of people who don't respond to points made, but seem to think they do, or think restating their position is a response, or who with consistancy misinterpret those they respond to, or who are not as articulate as they think or....and so on. IOW people who have patterns of unpleasant interaction and decide that if people get irritated or uninterested it must be their failing, because the only possible reason to get irritated with someone is if the struck a nerve. And, of course, there can be other, good reasons for having that reaction.SpheresOfBalance wrote: ↑Fri May 27, 2022 11:51 pm I love being on peoples ignore list, it means my bite, hit the bone; my sting, made their ears ring.
And in this post it's hard to tell what those terms mean to you, but it comes off, at this abstract level, as pretty self-contradictory, given the level of us/them, aggressive metaphors and pejoratives.Look, I'm a stickler for kicking exclusivity in the teeth, and I herald inclusivity, I'm its hero. So if your exclusive in your thinking, watch out because I bite. I'm gonna bite your thinking, your arguments, as antiquated as they are.
Given that I don't know you, I have no idea how much of this applies, so my point is more general. This 'it must be my genius, my impossible to refute arguments, the other person's underlying fears that lead them to get angry at me, ignore me, judge me,' is often, if not usually a self-serving rationalization. And, of course, it's also not a binary issue. It could be partly that they are troubled by some arguments but also that they are reacting to poor arguments, or lack of direct response, or condescension or.......or......
And any mix of these two on a spectrum of percentages.
In addition, some of the worst trolls can appear generally rational. Over time one can pick up that really they are avoiding certain things, their points don't quite apply to what they are responding to and so on.
The blunt, insult-loving, makes little effort to respond to points at all, smug bastard type trolls are much easier to deal with. There is nothing to suck you in unless you really need to vent at 'the other side.'
The subtle trolls, inwardly convinced of the power of their arguments, bulldoze in their nuanced way over people who actually read and respond to what they write, until the problems with the subtle troll it's clearly better to just let them wander off in their unwarrented certainty of their cleverness.