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The second someone wastes their time in your post history you've already won
Sometimes you see a wild political take on Lemmy and you open their profile and see them praising Russia and China.
Whats wrong with chinese food? Is it not suculant and delicious?
Ooh, that's a nice headlock, sir
You know your judo well.
You don't even need to open their history – you just look at their instance. I love Lemmy.
Oh that? That's just .ml
Sometimes? Often, lol.
Pretty sure some bingo cards have even been made.
I call it the tanky check.
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I don't know if I'd go that far. It's one of the easiest ways to identify troll behavior. Sure going through and analyzing every post is insane, but being able to click on someone's history and see that oh they say stupid stuff for reactions regularly is pretty helpful. I'd also argue that it's helpful when people are making intellectually dishonest arguments when they have ulterior motives. Racist dog whistles for instance, when someone makes an argument that's a pretty obvious dog whistle and then claims they're just asking questions the Post history can sometimes help cut through that nonsense.
Nah bro, I remember that post where some guy was criticizing OP's cooking, so OP checks that dude's post history and finds how he drinks his own piss.
I'm pretty sure OP won that argument by just mentioning that
They just wasted their time deliberating the opinion of someone who drinks piss instead of having confidence in their own abilities all to "win" an internet debate. That's not winning. At best they both lose
A significant amount of the time it helps me realize "no, I'm not misunderstanding, dude is just a racist asshole."
I would argue that the second you get into an argument online with strangers you've already lost
Wait....
Fuck.
This is the real answer
>go to history
>Most recent post is about mass downvoting
Yeah checks out lmao
Edit: hmmm can't figure out how to add green text brackets here
You need to escape them, like this:
Thanks mate
There are accounts that exclusively downvote random comments. Not controversial comments, random ones. I have no idea what the person running the bot gets out of it.
Probably kids practicing their first bot or something
A false sense of power and control.
I look to see if they are a troll depending on what they wrote. If someone’s life boils down to the need to win something in internet comments, they can have it. They got bigger problems to contend with even if they don’t see it yet.
Whenever I feel the need to check the post history I now just stop replying and move on.