By John (not verified) on 16 Mar 2017 #permalink
Sealioning involves jumping into a conversation with endless polite, reasonable questions and demands for answers, usually of entry-level topics far below the actual conversation (e.g. please prove sexism exists ). This tactic differs little from harassment; instead of discussion, the point is to make someone feel overwhelmed and shut up. It is comparable to running a filibusterWikipedia s W.svg and preventing anything getting done. The nature of Twitter makes it particularly easy to sealion since everything is extremely compressed.
A particularly toxic thing about sealioning is that people who are genuine newbies asking serious questions are easy to mistake for sealions.
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