# Let's name some SDMB posting 'moves' **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 8, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104 "2014-08-08T12:39:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/1 "2014-08-08T12:39:55Z")
Let’s get snarky! What I mean by posting ‘moves’: in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17620548#post17620548), I suggested that the posting ‘move’ of “making an assertion, and upon being challenged on this assertion, immediately backing off with no defense and making a totally different assertion, which is often just as ridiculous as the first” be called the “Full **adaher** ”. This can be extended into a series, ala the “double full adaher”, “triple full adaher”, and so forth. What other posting ‘moves’, in the spirit of good-natured (or not so good-natured) mockery, deserve their own names? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/2 "2014-08-08T12:47:22Z")
Pass. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/3 "2014-08-08T12:51:56Z")
The **Watchwolf** … the act of insulting the grammar of the statement without arguing the content. It only works if the poster’s own grammar is really really bad to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/4 "2014-08-08T12:52:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Pass. Too mean-spirited? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/5 "2014-08-08T13:43:22Z")
Nitpicking that is only nitpicking, doesn’t add anything to the discussion: C3POing ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/6 "2014-08-08T13:52:17Z")
Always being indisputably correct, witty, clever, and - why not - handsome: the Smeghead. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/7 "2014-08-08T13:52:18Z")
I’m going to decline the OP’s implicit invitation to name weasel-moves after specific posters. “The Myopic” happens when the debater deliberately misstates the opposing argument. “The Macular Degenerate” move occurs when the debater seemingly cannot even see the central point being made by the opposition, but is hell on wheels in debating and refuting the fringe and periphery arguments in play. And the “Amnesiac” is the move in which a given point is refined, defined, cited, and shown conclusively to be false, and the opposing debater stops responding – only to pop up a couple weeks later with his original argument and seemingly no recollection of the devastating defeat it received earlier. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/8 "2014-08-08T13:55:44Z")
The **Bricker** … declining the OP’s implicit invitation to name weasel-moves after specific posters. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/9 "2014-08-08T13:56:36Z")
A Romero is when someone comes along years later to re-raise an argument long settled in the zombie thread. Usually because they Googled the topic, hit a particularly inflammatory post and decided the universe would remain off-balance if they didn’t dump their life-work research file into the continuum. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/10 "2014-08-08T15:03:28Z")
The “I’m so stupid I didn’t even realize the cite I gave actually refutes my argument” move. I’d name it, but the 2 posters I can think of have been banned, so that’s probably not a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/11 "2014-08-08T15:15:19Z")
“The Concrete Brain” – in which the use of an analogy is taken way too literally, and attacked for not being perfect. Yes, we all know every analogy isn’t perfect. If there is a perfect analogy for discussing a complex topic, _it is the discussion of the complex topic itself!_ ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/12 "2014-08-08T15:35:40Z")
Well, there’s the **Cesario** … ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/13 "2014-08-08T15:41:52Z")
The Brickernit, reducing every debate into an argument over legalities and definitions and where questions of justice and morality have no place. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/14 "2014-08-08T15:44:19Z")
To **Vinny** : to offer a pun so wretched, putrid and horrifyingly banal as to render the respondent helpless and disarmed, as the brain is seized with spasms of nausea and revulsion. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/15 "2014-08-08T15:51:53Z")
The “I Didn’t Say Nothin” Defense, where every challenge is parried by denying that the poster said what is being challenged. A: I think left-handed people should be lined up against a wall and shot. B: That seems harsh. Why do you want to kill left-handed people? A: I never said they should be killed. Read for comprehension, you retarded asshole. I said they should be _shot_. Do you really not understand the difference between being shot and being killed? B: So the goal is what, to inflict pain? That seems pretty sadistic. A: When did I say anything about inflicting pain? Did you flunk first grade? Here, I’ll say it in real short words–they should be _shot_. I don’t care if they’re anesthetized first. Pain has nothing to do with it. B: So, why DO you want to shoot left-handed people? A: God, you’re a lying sack of shit. When did I ever say _I_ wanted to shoot them? I don’t even own a gun. I said they SHOULD BE SHOT. Jesus H. Christ, it’s hard arguing with illiterates. And so on. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/16 "2014-08-08T15:57:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > To **Vinny** : to offer a pun so wretched, putrid and horrifyingly banal as to render the respondent helpless and disarmed, as the brain is seized with spasms of nausea and revulsion. Like you’re so innocent? 😃 More like the **'luci/lieu** ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/17 "2014-08-08T16:02:37Z")
1: The Appeal to Invisible Authority “I have _dozens_ of e-mails and/or PMs from people on my side who like, totally support me on this issue but are uncomfortable posting their support. No you can’t see them.” 2: The Stupid Socratic Question.: Statement: The sky is blue. Response: Is the sky REALLY blue? What do you mean by blue? Do other people think it’s blue? 3: The Idiotic Cite request: Statement: People died in WWII. Response: You don’t know that for sure. Cite??? 4: The Dio, Type A: Blanket denial. Statement: The sky is blue. Dio-type-A: No it’s not. 5: The Dio, Type B: Denial of what you just wrote: Statment by Dio: The sky is blue right now. Response: But…it’s nightime and raining. The sky’s kind of greyish black, not blue. Dio-Type-B “I never said it was blue” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/18 "2014-08-08T16:04:06Z")
Spoon-bending. I’ll leave the definition to someone better at it. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/19 "2014-08-08T16:05:12Z")
How did I forget the **Magiver** : it doesn’t matter what “facts” or “real experts in the field” say, I know better than all of them. See, for example, his plan to air-drop motorcycles and an A-Team custom van into Benghazi within an hour of the shooting starting, despite the unanimous conclusions of military commanders and the Republican Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee that it was simply impossible. Also see, moving two patients with Ebola to the US for treatment causing a risk of an outbreak, even though a plethora of doctors say there is no threat, and the fact that Ebola viruses have been present in the United States for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104/20 "2014-08-08T16:06:59Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > 3: The Idiotic Cite request: Statement: People died in WWII. Response: You don’t know that for sure. Cite??? I think the more appropriate example is a request for a cite in relation to an opinion or conclusion. A: “I think the 49ers really have a shot at making it to the Super Bowl this year. And I really think Cool Ranch Doritos are superior to the Nacho Cheese variety.” B: “WTF??? CITE!!!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-name-some-sdmb-posting-moves/695104.md?page=2)