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What exactly is this behaviour called? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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When someone repeats an argument that has been proven false /badly argued many times before, but keeps repeating it in hopes of drowning out opposition or derailing a thread. Yet not disruptive enough to get banned on forums, as it wraps itself in non-hostile, nicely written sentences.

How exactly do moderators deal with this kind of behaviour?

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[–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Repeatedly using a blatantly false assertion is called the Big Lie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie). The derailing/zone flooding aspect, as @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world stated, is a Gish Gallop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop). There might be a term for using these together, but I am not aware of of what it might be.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Neither of these really apply?

    The big lie refers to a very big lie, but OP is talking about something subtle.

    A gish gallop refers to many lies, such that an opponent cant refute all of them, but OP is talking about one lie.

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