You are right. It is definitely not everyone and it is definitely not all the time. It was hyperbole. Sorry that I offended, you. I will try not to let my frustration come through like that again.

What I meant to say is something along the lines of "some people have a tendency to behave in a way that suggests that they assume that someone who disagrees with them is doing so only to be argumentative or for some other non-genuine reason".

Again, I did not mean to offend you or anyone else. I just wanted to describe my experiences when people have shut down all meaningful dialogue to enter "…

I actually wanted to ask you a question about how asking a mod for help works. I went back and reread my recent conversations in the bar and main chat for a 4th time, and honestly it left me a little taken aback. I expected to find someone saying something like "that's a strawman, you aren't allowed to say that" or anything like that. Instead, I saw no one calling anything I said a strawman, and I didn't see any instances of it.

This is confusing to me. No one accused me of using a strawman at the time (and like I said, I didn't see myself making the fallacy, and I certainly didn't mean to…