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March 2025:

This seems to be a common occurence on /. lately. I got into the same sort of interaction with someone a few weeks back. He just wanted to argue with everything anyone said. And then you go look at his history and that seems to be all he could do. And each time it was the same format. At least the guy arguing with me didn't 'break' once he couldn't argue anymore. That guy would just keep going forever, even if you said the sky was blue, he was going to argue about it.

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# Common Discord

These verbal sparring matches plague our forums now,

Where men of endless argument hold court.

With every comment met by furrowed brow,

And each response a chance for sharp retort.

I crossed such paths with one disputant keen,

Whose history revealed a single art:

Contention was his only routine scene,

Each statement challenged from the very start.

Some warriors yield when logic brings defeat,

But he fought on with unrelenting might.

If "skies are blue" should from my lips retreat,

He'd wage a war to prove my words not right.

These hollow battles drain our days of light,

When discourse dies beneath the need to fight.

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Slashdot (founded in 1997) was one of the early tech news aggregation and discussion websites. Some other notable websites contemporary with Slashdot during the late 1990s and early 2000s include:

Certainly! Here's the reordered list with dates and URLs on the same line:

 * BoingBoing (1995/2000): https://boingboing.net

 * Slashdot (1997): https://slashdot.org

 * Fark (1999): https://fark.com

 * Kuro5hin (1999): (No current official URL)

 * Metafilter (1999): https://metafilter.com

 * SomethingAwful (1999): https://forums.somethingawful.com

 * Digg (2004): https://digg.com

 * Reddit (2005): https://reddit.com

 * Hacker News (2007): https://news.ycombinator.com