Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: on Nostr: Note: Sealioning is a form of "debate trolling" in which someone harasses someone ...

Note: Sealioning is a form of "debate trolling" in which someone harasses someone with repeated requests for elaboration / evidence where none should be needed, and disingenuous appeals to "reasonable debate" when the other person clearly just wants to go on with their day. It's very circumstantial when it's bad, but it can be pretty bad when employed against, say, disabled people talking about ableism.

Webster's defines it as "a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning