2007-09-26 03:23:38 · 19 answers · asked by Spartacus 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Say what you want but none of what I said about liberals can be proven false.
2007-09-26 03:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by Frank Dileo 3 · 2⤊ 12⤋
Extreme trolls are bad but what is a straw man arguement?
2007-09-26 10:50:42 · answer #2 · answered by Bleh! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the trolls are trying to manipulate people by planting false facts in their conscious, and more dangerously, in their unconscious minds.
It's just like gossip and rumors. When you hear something bad about someone, you may actually believe it whether it's true or not. But if you later find out it that the gossip wasn't true, you still have lingering doubts about the person who was the subject of the gossip.
Lingering doubts or a vague feeling of unease may be enough to cause a voter to punch or press the button for a rival candidate. And of course, these doubts are based on manipulative lies and associations and have nothing to do with the qualifications of any of the candidates. The long and the short of it is that these trolls undermine our democracy by planting misinformation
2007-09-26 10:28:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Since most who participate in here are pretty literate, and thus usually intelligent, I think they recognize trolls and trollish arguments, and give them little or no credibility.
As an egalitarian defender of human and civil rights, I think that America's greatest internal danger today are the liberty-hating terrorists of the "Religious" Radical Right. The RRR Cult. Because ---
RRR : Society :: 5% arsenic solution : glass of drinking water
2007-09-26 11:13:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything to an extreme is dangerous.
Trolling is just an extreme need for attention and I wouldn't be surprised if some people not just in Y!A but all over the internet are actually mentally ill.
Kind of sad, really.
2007-09-26 10:35:21 · answer #5 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It's almost funny that a few of the first answerers don't even knbow what you're talking about, because they're the ones who fall for those questions!
It always amazes me the way the trolls have them eating out of the palm of their hands.
2007-09-26 10:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by TJTB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is people like that who have divided this country more than at any time in history with the exception of the Civil War. Those people are dangerous. The scary part is there are a whole lot of them.
2007-09-26 10:38:03 · answer #7 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because they're the most vocal. They are walking stereotypes that allow people to justify not giving the other sides arguments fair and unbiased consideration.
2007-09-26 10:49:17 · answer #8 · answered by I'm back...and this still sucks. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because a few people who just don't think things thru may read the questions and be influenced by the statements made.
2007-09-26 10:28:04 · answer #9 · answered by halestrm 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Well......... cons think trolling is justified because Yahoo supposedly discriminates against them.
Completely unprovable and a dumb thing to do if you were Yahoo - but there it is.
2007-09-26 11:13:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that "EXTREME" anything now days is what’s in. Extreme eating, extreme sex.... extreme left and extreme right.
People tend to be sucked in my sensationalism without fully understanding what it is they have been sucked in by.
2007-09-26 11:00:09 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋