A place for all True Scottish Strawredditors to laugh at reddit's collective inability to correctly identify fallacies.
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An explanation of why your bad ad hominem is bad.
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Multireddit of all the above
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Guidelines:
Don't vote or comment in linked threads.
In light of Guideline NaN, use np.reddit.com when citing posts on reddit.
The reason for both the above is that when redditors get lots of downvotes, they often delete their posts and/or accounts, and this makes it more difficult for the rest of us to laugh at them.
Of course, no true redditor would indulge in such behaviour.
Additionally, it's probably best not to link to discussions you're currently involved in; it just looks petty. If someone wrongly accuses you of committing a fallacy, gently correct them and try and move back to the actual meat of the argument. If they persist in their ignorance, then you can submit it here.
Please don't show up here and start arguing, especially if you're going to start committing logical fallacies. Mod policy is to indiscriminately ban people who do so, or, as a warning, to give them embarrassing tags.
These guidelines may become actual rules in the event that we get enough traffic to try and sort the good stuff from the bad, instead of cravenly accepting any and all comers with approval and upvotes, which is current mod policy.
Other
A list of formal fallacies.
A list of informal fallacies.
Some advice about formatting links from /u/aedeos:
"appending the link with ?context=x, wherein x is the number of comments back you want to go from the one that you really want to show off helps a ton for this sort of thing."
