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Q: How to handle 'arguments from authority'

JJJAccording to Wikipedia an argument from authority or argumentum ab auctoritate is a fallacy "in which a claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion". I just read a comment in which a user dismissed articles from The Hill and the BBC because, and I quote: Trum...

 
 
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10:15 AM
@LangLangC a ban is a total ban iirc
no editing, no posting, nothing
 
@Magisch Thx. Had the impression that eg meta or edits on own were still possible. (Must have been less up-to-date on several timelines; seeing activity from a user who I thought was banned, then saw activity). So, the recent DV-storm on a post with 2 As means that's how it's gonna stay?
 
 
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11:56 PM
@JonathanReez Bikeshedding at its <strike>best</strike> worst
@JonathanReez My most upvoted answer (700+upvotes) on StackOverflow is a trivial Java question, which I answered by Googling a standard Java document, and took may be 3 minutes to write including edits. My uber-comprehensive, "gold quality" Perl best answer is barely 1/3 the votes. Most of my "this is a fancy, smart solution to interesting problems" SO answers have between 3 and 10 votes.
 

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