quote:

---

AKA: I asked some feminists a question, and instead of answering they sent me here. Why?

Your question probably covered ground they have gone over many times before, and they didn’t want to derail the interesting discussion they were already having.

People find questions that do not further the current discussion frustrating. Questioners find being ignored at least as frustrating, and such mutual dissatisfaction can totally disrupt a discussion. By sending you here the feminists hope to avoid such disruption, yet are also not completely ignoring your question(s).

Maybe you didn’t ask a question at all, but asserted/argued a point that denied the factuality/importance of the topic being discussed. Nobody cheers at the thought of trying to run another through reams of introductory material before that person gains the grounding to argue a topic knowledgeably.

Either way, educating you on the basics would derail the discussion about the actual topic the feminists are interested in, just for you. That’s an awful lot to ask of people on the net who don’t even know you, isn’t it?

---

[ 06 January 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]

quote:

---

Don’t attack without mercy until they’ve made stupid claims in at least 3 separate comments.

---

Love this:

quote:

---

Stranger:1I think all women are chattel.
Old hand: Pardon me, friend, but are you using humor, irony, sarcasm, or satire? Are you perhaps about to expand on a deeper philosophical point?
Stranger: 2No, I just think women are meant to serve my needs.
Old hand: This sounds like a most unfortunate and disagreeable belief. Why should you hold such a demeaning attitude?
Stranger: 3Because the Bible, which is the literal word of God, tells me so.
Old hand: [Smashes whiskey bottle over stranger’s head. General brawl commences.]

See? Isn’t that much better? You can still have your fun in the general melee, but let’s just slow the onset down a little, hold fire for a few minutes, and see if we can get a few words through the macho murk first.

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by martin dufresne:
Sort of "three fouls and you're fair game"...?
I predict that some will abuse the two passes with lengthy RW rants and then post something half-'reasonable'...

---

Also, how many knowing trolls would just do it in 3 separate threads, and thereby try to escape from the 3 point rule?

quote:

---

Originally posted by remind:
First, I kinda see the 3 strikes as entrapment, as set out in the example, you know where the dialectic is already going, so really you are just feeding the troll until you can slam them in the 3 point position.

---