Viv
03-22-2008, 03:12 PM
Posted by a friend on another forum, with only a couple of slight additions from me ...enjoy...;)
This is a guide to how to win a debate when you have no idea of what you are talking about.
1) ADOPT THE GOLDEN RULE: Under no circumstances must you ever ever attempt to produce a link or supporting evidence. Once you do that, you are finished. Remember the debating motto: "With no link, you are in the pink"
2) REFER TO SEARCH ENGINES: If someone is annoying you to produce links or evidence to your ridiculous statements, resort to the search engine strategy. Something like "look it up on google you lazy arse. Here is the google address, you loser www.google.com"...
3) PERSONAL ABUSE: This is a great strategy if you are really struggling. Personally abuse the poster with as much vitriol and profanity as you can without being banned. That will divert the debate off course just enough for you to retain your composure.
4) THE UNTOUCHABLES MOVE: Really in a bind by saying something earlier in a thread and being caught out contradicting yourself or lying? No problem... There is a famous move called the "Untouchables" which takes care of this. Simply go back to your earlier offending post and re-edit what you said. As long it hasn't been quoted , no one will ever know. Thats the beauty of this move. You can also add new text putting your previous statement in proper context ie not a bare faced lie type of context.
5) DUAL IDENTITIES: A bit risky in this day and age but is a tool that can be used on desperate occasions. Go to an internet cafe, create a new bogus identity and start posting in your thread, supporting everything you say.
6) GO OFF TOPIC: Similiar strategy to the personal abuse. If you are cornered in a debate by really unfair tactics, you know, such things as logic or facts...Revert to talking about something even remotely linked to the topic. Anything to create a diversion and steer the debate to another direction. Hopefully a direction that doesn't show that you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
7) MAKE IT UP: Why do boringly laborious tasks such as researching facts when you can make the whole lot up? Just bulltish to your hearts desire. And no one can prove otherwise. No one can google things that have come straight out of your imagination.
8) JEWS: A popular move, and it is popular for one simple reason. It works everytime. It doesn't matter if Jews have nothing to do with your topic. Who cares? Bring them in somehow. Jews can be brought into every single topic. There is no topic that Jews can't be brought into. And once Jews is in the topic, watch the level of support that you will get around the board. Think you are outnumbered 10 to 1? Blame the Jews and it will be 15 to 10 in your favour.
9) THE MODERATOR PLOY: Report a post as racist/sexist/offensive/lies/just really annoying and simultaneously issue an outraged pm to all Moderators, accusing them of incompetent/biased moderation (or whatever inflammatory tosh you can come up with). Moderators are too harassed to know what's happening. On a good day, all of them will interrupt the thread with a stupid warning. Great diversion as inflamed posters begin fighting with Mods. This allows you plenty of time to regroup and move indignantly to another thread.
10) THE LAST RESORT: Okay, so you have tried all these tactics and nothing works. You are still showing as a complete crank who invents sources, makes things up as they go and has no idea whatsoever what they are talking about? Well, unfortunately you have to know when to give up and toss in the white flag. So, here is what you do. Go away for 3 weeks and come back and hope that the thread will have died and no one will remember what you posted about.
That's it, how to win a debate when you haven't got a clue what you're on about!
Disclaimer: Number 9 is not directed at Moderators in this forum...but at some other really bad Mods at a completely different forum nothing like this where a friend of mine said his friend's friend posts...:D:p
This is a guide to how to win a debate when you have no idea of what you are talking about.
1) ADOPT THE GOLDEN RULE: Under no circumstances must you ever ever attempt to produce a link or supporting evidence. Once you do that, you are finished. Remember the debating motto: "With no link, you are in the pink"
2) REFER TO SEARCH ENGINES: If someone is annoying you to produce links or evidence to your ridiculous statements, resort to the search engine strategy. Something like "look it up on google you lazy arse. Here is the google address, you loser www.google.com"...
3) PERSONAL ABUSE: This is a great strategy if you are really struggling. Personally abuse the poster with as much vitriol and profanity as you can without being banned. That will divert the debate off course just enough for you to retain your composure.
4) THE UNTOUCHABLES MOVE: Really in a bind by saying something earlier in a thread and being caught out contradicting yourself or lying? No problem... There is a famous move called the "Untouchables" which takes care of this. Simply go back to your earlier offending post and re-edit what you said. As long it hasn't been quoted , no one will ever know. Thats the beauty of this move. You can also add new text putting your previous statement in proper context ie not a bare faced lie type of context.
5) DUAL IDENTITIES: A bit risky in this day and age but is a tool that can be used on desperate occasions. Go to an internet cafe, create a new bogus identity and start posting in your thread, supporting everything you say.
6) GO OFF TOPIC: Similiar strategy to the personal abuse. If you are cornered in a debate by really unfair tactics, you know, such things as logic or facts...Revert to talking about something even remotely linked to the topic. Anything to create a diversion and steer the debate to another direction. Hopefully a direction that doesn't show that you don't have a clue what you are talking about.
7) MAKE IT UP: Why do boringly laborious tasks such as researching facts when you can make the whole lot up? Just bulltish to your hearts desire. And no one can prove otherwise. No one can google things that have come straight out of your imagination.
8) JEWS: A popular move, and it is popular for one simple reason. It works everytime. It doesn't matter if Jews have nothing to do with your topic. Who cares? Bring them in somehow. Jews can be brought into every single topic. There is no topic that Jews can't be brought into. And once Jews is in the topic, watch the level of support that you will get around the board. Think you are outnumbered 10 to 1? Blame the Jews and it will be 15 to 10 in your favour.
9) THE MODERATOR PLOY: Report a post as racist/sexist/offensive/lies/just really annoying and simultaneously issue an outraged pm to all Moderators, accusing them of incompetent/biased moderation (or whatever inflammatory tosh you can come up with). Moderators are too harassed to know what's happening. On a good day, all of them will interrupt the thread with a stupid warning. Great diversion as inflamed posters begin fighting with Mods. This allows you plenty of time to regroup and move indignantly to another thread.
10) THE LAST RESORT: Okay, so you have tried all these tactics and nothing works. You are still showing as a complete crank who invents sources, makes things up as they go and has no idea whatsoever what they are talking about? Well, unfortunately you have to know when to give up and toss in the white flag. So, here is what you do. Go away for 3 weeks and come back and hope that the thread will have died and no one will remember what you posted about.
That's it, how to win a debate when you haven't got a clue what you're on about!
Disclaimer: Number 9 is not directed at Moderators in this forum...but at some other really bad Mods at a completely different forum nothing like this where a friend of mine said his friend's friend posts...:D:p