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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Fair enough, but you can understand how it's pretty hard to parse the posts where people are trying to have an actual conversation from those in which people are, apparently, just trying to get their rocks off by being trolls. Particularly when those trolls sometimes at least seem to want to be taken seriously.
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Not everything that affects you amounts to trolling, and using tools like hyperbole or satire for a very specific effect (that, again, some people grasped, some didn’t) is not mutually exclusive to wanting to be taken seriously.
It’s worth remembering that not every post that’s a little lighter is trolling, not every post that someone enjoys writing amounts to “getting ones rocks off,” and not every post is written to meet your desired level of seriousness or academia.
But here I am defending the use of different rhetorical devices to the guy who thinks pointing out that obvious hyperbole is hyperbole and expressing un-nuanced views on the importance of nuance is actually “attempting to have a conversation” and definitely not trolling, so what do I know.