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by kens 996 days ago
That reminds me of Scalzi's interesting post "The Gamification of Rhetoric". He describes how many people are not interested in issues or discussion, but are just trying to win with a sequence of stock arguments. He refers to this as slapping down cards from a "Debate: The Gathering" stack.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2018/08/03/the-gamification-of-r...

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Notably, John Scalzi.