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u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!
I mean, where do you go from there?
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On a related note, I have a friend who tried to argue for Ruby on Rails in his workplace and one of the Perl guys there literally said "Whatever dude, frameworks are for fags." He was dead serious. I mean, where do you go from there?
Monster.com.
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I think the Flamebaiting category is a useful addition to PG's hierarchy. The new category brings to mind an interesting property of this hierarchy though, namely that it seems to be difficult to respond to an "argument" with a higher order technique than that which was originally presented. For example, if one were disagreeing with a purely ad hominem rant, one would find it futile and nearly impossible to disagree…
Another way out is to simply ignore poor arguments and spend one's scarce time responding to the intelligent ones instead. (Admittedly, this is not always possible or desirable.)
The problem on those sites is that their is not only poor comments but also tons of users who upmod them.
WHY?
Is this a lower form of disagreement than DH6? Most definitely, however, the English language has a rich tradition of satire and mockery going back at least as far as Jonathan Swift.