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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The thing is a true sealion only "wins" by dragging you into a long offtopic comment chain.

Professional sealions (we don't have them here yet thank god) come armed with a list of "talking points" they use to try to derail genuine conversations and turn them into something else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, that’s sad. I have nothing but pity for anyone who considers themselves a “true” or “professional” sea lion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Eh, they get paid.

I'm talking about the 50 Cent-ers, the BJP IT, the Hasbara trolls, the Russian troll army, the Indonesian troll army etc etc etc.

Not sure what they conceptualize it as but they do tend to sealion.

Pretty sure Zucc has one as well, and that dodgy remote work company that advertises on Reddit definitely employs a couple of people.