Tactics for Twitter.

Let us accept that twitter is primarily for social validation. Or social devalidation: both are trolling. What I get frequently is “you misspelt that word”.

I normally reply “content not pedantry”, or “if you want proof read perfection look at a submitted paper not a tweet”. I am not going to redraft a tweet twenty times so it is perfect. I’m going to send it.

Got a tactical question. How do you guys successfully handle
1) Demands for citations
2) Burden of proof arguments.Here’s what I mean.
The minute the SJW realizes his ship is about to sink, he will issue demands for citations, or data that supports your claim. He wants papers, studies, bibliographies, charts, graphs, whatever you got. That’s the bait. Beware taking it. Maybe never take it. What happens next is the attack on your sources, and you get sucked down into the weeds on defense.
Often I say, “your education is not my responsibility. Verify my claims on your own.”That of course invites the burden of proof shifting. You’re the guy with the claim, you back it up. Of course, often you are not the guy with the claim, they are the ones who came in with the challenge.They pull this stuff routinely in forums where these kinds of expectations are ridiculous, such as even in a Twitter chat. You want my bibliography in 140 characters, really? Well yes, burden of proof is on you back it up, etc.
I never seem to overcome all this in a satisfactory manner, other than to say, “You’re not getting any sources from me unless you want to pay me for it.”That seems to be the best tack I’ve come up with.Vox Popoli: “an excellent tactics manual”

There are aways around this. I’m coming to the conclusion that amplify and attack works quite nicely.

Here I made a tactical error. I did not save my retweet immediately. And thus when I found it today, it’s down. But the meme remains.