# The Economics of Trolling, the SDMB, and Moderator Decisions.

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**Created:** [November 15, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-trolling-the-sdmb-and-moderator-decisions/843474 "2019-11-15T03:57:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-economics-of-trolling-the-sdmb-and-moderator-decisions/843474/10 "2019-11-15T05:35:34Z")

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> [@What Effect Will Trump's Concentration Camps have on his reelection campaign?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-effect-will-trumps-concentration-camps-have-on-his-reelection-campaign/835738/660):
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> This kind of misleading presentation is an example of bad faith argument. First, it misrepresents the evidence, seemingly intentionally. Second, you’ve switched the nature of the commentary - first saying that more people were killed under the Obama administration, then saying it was about the same rate.
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> I’m giving you fair notice here. I have no more patience for JAQing off, sealioning, other off topic tangents meant to rile people up, or other bad faith arguments. That goes for all threads in the future, including this one. I will bookmark this post and if it occurs again you will be warned.
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> [/moderating]

> [@The Trump Impeachment Inquiry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/4343):
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> Ditka, there’s a far cry from disliking Breitbart as a source - something all rational people should do - and declaring another poster only wants ‘left-wing sources’.
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> This looks a great deal like sea-lioning. Please don’t do so in the future.
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> No warning issued.

> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> Ditka, stop it. This sort of thing looks like you’re intentionally dragging a discussion from another forum into this one for the purposes of continuing it. Any more of that and you’ll be warned.

Is there any particular reason, **Jonathon Chance** , **Bone** for foregoing warnings given the previous?

Anyway.

Hurricane Dikta has not, to my knowledge, engaged in anything other than bad-faith arguments for quite some time now. Whataboutism (for example [this post.)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21971919&postcount=4419) Sealioning, all through that same thread. Through it all, he’s received a number of “don’t do this” cautions from the moderators, none of them resulting in actual warnings.

Hurricane Dikta has not changed his behavior, nor will he. His sole purpose on the Board is to “own da Libz” - or at least, try to. Every thread he participates in becomes a swamp of bad-faith arguments, diversions, all delivered with sneering contempt. The Board can be a place of insightful debate, but any thread that he participates in degenerates almost instantly, as he is not interested in debate. He is only interested in spite and disruption.

I will not engage with him anymore, and I suggest that every poster do the same - except, of course, for the moderators.

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