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> I wondered how someone so hostile could survive moderation here

Not related to GP, but check out any front page political thread to see how hostility and toxicity evade moderation. There are tricks you can use to effectively ad-hominem someone without making it explicit and instantly flagged to the ground.

This for example, was a pretty popular method on some of the recent Elon Musk threads: https://www.ultius.com/glossary/literature/rhetorical-device...

Except instead of:

> The main purpose of the hypophora is to enable the speaker to anticipate the listeners' concerns and then address them within the context of his own speech.

You utilize it to discredit any further argument by asking a question regarding someone’s reasons or motive and instantly shoot them down with something negative that makes their argument look shoddy.

Also in general deep threads tend to hide hostility for a bit, especially if all sides are engaged. I’ve seen very deep threads that became nothing but different groups souring each other on here once. I imagine it gets harder to moderate when everyone is fighting and use user moderation is weakened.



I mean... in my case, there wasn't really much of an argument. I guess it was "rich people are better than poor people," which, I do want to discredit, but also don't want to legitimize.


Let's discuss this thread. You aren't discussing in good faith when you reduce the complaints in the article (paraphrasing): "I want to be respected at work and not be mocked on social media" to (exact quote): "Men complaining about women should be ridiculed and will always earn my condescension".


The comment I replied to wasn't referring to complaints about work, they were referring to complaints the dating game.

There is nothing wrong with being condescending towards men who talk about "women" like they're a different species.


The most common usage I saw was something along the lines of:

*You [do/don’t] like Elon Musk. Perhaps that is because [you’re as bad as him/you are jealous of him]

Obviously use your vocabulary and sentence structure to fluff it up and make it a little less blunt.




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