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Expand 'sustained disruption of discussion' text to explicitly call out concern trolling, sealioning, gish galloping, and argumentum ad nauseam.
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TzviyaSiegman authored Jun 8, 2021
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<a>Harassing</a> photography or recording, including logging online
activity for <a>harassment</a> purposes.
</li>
<li>Sustained disruption of discussion.
<li>Sustained disruption of discussion. This may include, but
is not limited to, various common methods of engaging in bad
faith discourse such as:<ul>
<!-- https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Concern_troll -->
<li>disingenuously expressesing concern in order to
undermine or derail a discussion (<dfn>concern
trolling</dfn>),
</li>
<!-- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions -->
<li>asking numerous questions about basic concepts in an
attempt to derail discussion, to stifle participation, or
to provoke a critical response in order to appear a victim
(<dfn>sealioning</dfn>),
</li>
<!-- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop -->
<li>overwhelming a debate with many weak arguments in an
attempt to cause others to waste time refuting them
(<dfn>Gish Galloping</dfn>), or
</li>
<!-- https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam -->
<li>repeatedly making claims already shown to be false
(<dfn lang=la>argumentum ad nauseam</dfn>).
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Unwelcome sexual attention.
</li>
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