Quote from: stereotype on May 19, 2015, 10:13:17 AM

Quote from: Bagatell on May 19, 2015, 09:54:15 AM

Technique #3 - 'TOPIC DILUTION'

Topic dilution is not only effective in forum sliding it is also very useful in keeping the forum readers on unrelated and non-productive issues. This is a critical and useful technique to cause a 'RESOURCE BURN.' By implementing continual and non-related postings that distract and disrupt (trolling ) the forum readers they are more effectively stopped from anything of any real productivity. If the intensity of gradual dilution is intense enough, the readers will effectively stop researching and simply slip into a 'gossip mode.' In this state they can be more easily misdirected away from facts towards uninformed conjecture and opinion. The less informed they are the more effective and easy it becomes to control the entire group in the direction that you would desire the group to go in. It must be stressed that a proper assessment of the psychological capabilities and levels of education is first determined of the group to determine at what level to 'drive in the wedge.' By being too far off topic too quickly it may trigger censorship by a forum moderator.

I think that would afford too much credit to him, personally. I dont think he wants to actually argue or debate at all. To me, it looks like a character, short on ways to express himself in day to day life, who is able to regurgitate here, the dictionary he eats daily for breakfast.

I stopped reading his self-righteous rambling nonsense, because the few nuggets of apparent wisdom just didnt seem worth the effort to extract, from said ramblings.

Intelligent, yes. Wise, no way.

Don't forget insincere. Everything it says is not intended for any face value, always for some confabulated, tortured effect. Highly intelligent, but applied entirely to social engineering from several perspectives at once (i.e. how the entire discourse is perceived by all actors at all levels of psychological investment in said discourse).