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As Wikipedia explains, **Sealioning** […] is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[10] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic *Wondermark* by David Malki, which *The Independent* called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see". Although I'm a regular reader of David Malki's Wondermark, and interested in the taxonomy of trolling, I've somehow managed to miss this word. Here's the 9/19/2014 comic: Wiktionary has an entry for sealioning. There's as yet no entry in Merriam-Webster's (though the list it among the Words We're Watching) or the OED.…

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