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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Warning you may have violated group rule #...

The following is a list of infractions of the Edward de Vere was Shakespeare Group's anti-Troll rules (subject to change as needed in order to best accomplish the goal) as explained in the post "The New Group Policy. Effective immediately.":

  1. Engaging in ad hominem attack.

  2. Threatening to sue.

  3. Engaging in tag-team tactics.

  4. Engaging in semantics / bafflegab / Gish Gallop and little else.

  5. Replying to the argument(s) of others by reducing the matter to semantics / bafflegab and/or by flooding it with a firehose of disarticulate contention.

  6. Supporting semantics / bafflegab / Gish Gallop with claims of superior credentials.

  7. Putting words in opponent's mouth: “You have admitted...” [followed by a ridiculously convenient misrepresentation]? “Not having replied to my assertion you admit you cannot refute it.”

  8. Practicing Shakespeare Authorship “law” like a street hustler practices three-card monte.

  9. Demanding levels of evidence to which the member does not hold themself.

  10. Making claims of superior credentials which invalidate opponents' facts.

  11. Making ipse dixit pronouncements.

  12. Supporting ipse dixit pronouncements with claims of superior credentials.

  13. Asserting ipse dixit pronouncements and/or bafflegab and/or Gish Gallop are conceded because an opponent has not wasted their time refuting them.

  14. Giving out homework assignments to one's opponents.

  15. Providing no citation(s) with link and applicable quote.

  16. Claiming “I have already explained this.” Or “I've already proved this to be true/false [so many times]” without restating purported proof or providing link to the purported previous proof(s).

  17. Asserting convenient false equivalence / invalid analogy.

  18. Engaging in one or more convenient non-sequitur(s).

  19. Engaging in any of various bait and switch tactics.

  20. Using the term “strawman” where it does not apply.

  21. Alleging motivations to others, claiming they make valid comments or arguments invalid.

  22. Employing variations upon the devastating old Middle School retort: “I am rubber, you are glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!”

Infractions may result in suspension.
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1 comment:

rroffel said...

Thank your for posting the amended rules.

They just boil down to common-sense academic honesty and integrity. Its something that should be enforced at all levels of education.

It's sad that we have to resort to reminding people (supposedly adults) that being honest on Facebook groups is the only policy, not just the best one.

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