What Debate Tactics Rub You the Wrong Way?

[Charity]

Agree with me :slap: doggone it , you know I'm always right.......the trouble is everyone else thinks they are right too!

 

[Scuba Pete]

Having gone through a recent bludgeoning into submission, this is fast becoming my least favorite style. When someone wishes to disengage: LET THEM!

 

[Smoke]

Sometimes people want to disengage, but they also want to have the last word.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Do not.

 

[Alceste]

Ooh, I thought of another annoying one: the "snip and rebut" method of chopping a post up and responding to every single sentence in a post as if it were an argument in and of itself. It's especially annoying if it provokes a counter-snip where the comments are subdivided even further. Can't always be avoided if someone has asked a string of questions, but nevertheless...

Far better, IMO, to respond to the general thrust of a statement in a single post which addresses the main concept being expressed.

I'm also not a fan of the "you didn't answer my question" approach, where the question is not repeated and everything else that was said is dismissed because some mystery question wasn't answered.

 

[tomspug]

Ooh, I thought of another annoying one: the "snip and rebut" method of chopping a post up and responding to every single sentence in a post as if it were an argument in and of itself. It's especially annoying if it provokes a counter-snip where the comments are subdivided even further. Can't always be avoided if someone has asked a string of questions, but nevertheless...

Far better, IMO, to respond to the general thrust of a statement in a single post which addresses the main concept being expressed.

I'm also not a fan of the "you didn't answer my question" approach, where the question is not repeated and everything else that was said is dismissed because some mystery question wasn't answered.

Ugh, I hate when people do that. To me, it just shows that you actually are more interested in being right than anything else.

 

[Alceste]

Ugh, I hate when people do that. To me, it just shows that you actually are more interested in being right than anything else.

Also seems like it's more about trying to berate somebody into giving up than communicate a well-illustrated point. I find it's more common in the "you're wrong" crowd than the "I'm right" crowd. People who have an opinion they believe (with good reason) to be sound can usually conjure up a coherent statement relating to it.

 

[Yerda]

I tend to get annoyed when people use arguments that I don't understand. That's cheating.