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    5 days ago

    Attacking the person and not the point?

    Should I have termed it as ‘Poisoning the well’ or something else?
    What term would you have used?

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      4 days ago

      While that is correct, it’s not what the comment you replied to did. There’s no criticisim to you as a person. It simply says that the argument reads as “whataboutism” so yup, your reply doesn’t really make sense.

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        4 days ago

        Are you isolating that comment alone, while ignoring the original comment? I was talking about that one. Not any towards me, but the original OP.

        I mentioned that they did not have any response, other than trying to poison the well and implying stuff about the memes community, OP and other posters.

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          4 days ago

          You replied to the wrong comment then ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ why would you reply to the second comment if you were referring to the first?

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              4 days ago

              Didn’t seem that way since neither the original comment nor their response is an “ad hominem” attack. But ok dude, you do you.

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                4 days ago

                It may have seemed like that since you were not the commentor who I was replying to and did not follow the comment chain. And I did ask if it would be better to term it as ‘poisoning the well’.

                But ok dude, you do you.

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                  4 days ago

                  Not the issue, no. Your reply just didn’t make sense. No one, at any point, made an “ad hominem” attack/comment. Also, that term and “poisoning the well” have nothing to do with each other.