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It's not so much trolling as testing the site's commitment to free speech. A lot of sites claim to support free speech (or "open discourse"), yet have a long list of unspecified words and subjects that are verboten. Voaters like to keep a constant chatter of typically disapproved language to serve as a censorship canary, as it were. As soon as the bans start you know the site is compromised.
That's right. Free speech includes outrageous speech. Often future understanding starts with outrageous speech. The left has clearly learned that lesson. That's why they promote outrageous speech on their side and stifle it on ours. We have dangerous ideas that they can't allow the public to ponder.
There's nothing wrong with outrageous speech, but I've already engaged with a few that just angrily repeated the same points over and over, and when I tried to point out other information they got mad and just said "I'm not going to speak to you!"
That's just trolling and drama, and when you try to engage they do what all other trolls do - cry and call you names.
What we're doing is having a conversation. You make a point, I make a point. It's good stuff.
They're not your audience. They may be your target, but you'll never use logic to change sentiment. It's the third person that is the audience.
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