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by dmonitor 1196 days ago
the second best life hack is to block the person your arguing with so that they can’t respond and you guarantee getting the last word
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Or reply with a short slam dunk, then delete the comment. They'll see the notification and be able to read it, but can't reply.
This is how blocking works now. They changed it sometime relatively recently.

Utterly deranged.

blocking is even better because everyone else can read it too, so it just looks like the blocked person had no response to the comment and accepted “defeat”
I would think any seasoned Reddit argumentarian would have an alt or two they could reply to you with.
I beleive it and have seen it. But it's never happened to me in my ~8-9 years on the site. I guess I lucked out.