Your attempts to impose terms and conditions on the arguments of others, as you have done in this thread and elsewhere, are manipulative.
Everyone in this thread (and most threads where there is a disagreement) is talking about how they think other people should behave.
Straightforwardly announcing what you think is good is not "manipulation". Manipulation involves hidden intent.
I am going to a place on the internet where misinformation is being spread and fact-checking it for any underinformed member of the public who might stumble across it. I haven't claimed otherwise and you can't even describe why this would be implausible or require some other, secret, motivation.
So are your laughable attempts at armchair psychoanalysis.
What is the secret intent?
There isn't one. I am simply describing the only reasons I can see why
you'd say that pointing out people lying is bad is...bad.
Your constant and escalating accusations of lying,
Again I am straightforwardly identifying misinformation. That isn't secretly trying to get you to do something.
...is bullying///
Bullying requires the bully have more power in the situation than who they're interacting with, and everyone here has the same power here: to type.
Unless you're saying I am telekinetically shoving you in a locker by typing, I can't bully you or anyone else here.
In fact, many of the troll posts here--including yours--are
announcing your excitement and satisfaction with the fact that there is no mechanism by which I can coerce anything out of you here. That is: announcing that y'all cannot be bullied here.
It makes no sense to simultaneously announce how happy you are that no-one can coerce you into changing your behavior
and claiming they are bullying you at the same time.
But even if it did, I still am using no power to do anything to you but type.
Your "I'm just trying to get to THE TRUTH here!" is classic concern trolling, "I'm just asking questions" is Something Awful levels of transparent BS.
Unless you are trying to get to the truth. Otherwise literally all science, journalism, academic study, etc is "concern trolling" as they involve asking questions to try to get to the truth
Since I
am trying to get to the truth, this makes no sense.
Luckily, we tested this: I successfully sued a Something Awful troll for lying.
I'm also fine with being disagreed with
Then you can stop responding.
. I honestly believe that baiting
So your goal is to be a master baiter. Ok.
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So there it is straight up. You're lying. You got caught again.
Attaching random negative descriptors to random straw descriptions doesn't change the fact you lied.
Believing the lying you're doing to be popular with readers doesn't change the fact you lied.
Announcing you are successfully
manipulating the person you're lying about into answering against their best interest ("baiting") doesn't change the fact you lied.
All of this appears to be based in a weird belief (or desire to claim) that fact-checking is not good or useful in itself and so the behavior requires elaborate trolly explanations. It doesn't.
That's what's important to me--that people reading know you are lying.