Style over Substance
Revision as of 22:30, 17 January 2008 by Darth Servo (talk | contribs)
Logical fallacy where the tone of a message or its containing profanity is claimed to somehow invalidate its logical points.
Many boards often employ stirck rules about manners. Such policies can and do lead to high bullshit tolerance levels due to "everyone being entitled to their opinion" no matter how stupid the opinion is. Trolls often use to their advantage to ignore arguments they can't handle because they weren't worded to the trolls personal standards of politeness.