I was not aware of this, but this sort of thing is one of my personal interests. If you don't mind me asking, where did you learn the answer to that question?
Apparently he does mind you asking, and so do a lot of other people, since nobody replied.
Your "positive attitude" is toxic, because you're still sealioning, a technique you learned from Gamergate and brought here, where it's inappropriate and unwelcome, and which you have been repeatedly been warned NOT to do, but in spite of which you relentlessly continue to do, and for which your posts have been repeatedly flagged and deeply downvoted and frequently even killed and hidden, and because of which your account is well on its way to being banned.
Give it a break. Stop posting generic content-free comment spam like that, which look like you copied and pasted them out of a table in the appendix of "Sealioning for Dummies", and bear absolutely no relationship to the topic being discussed, and have no positive impact of the conversation.
And remember it will be easy to recognize you, and we will be on the lookout for you (plus the management has countermeasures in place that will detect you instantly), if you create a new sock puppet account, and continue sealioning after you're banned.
Sealioning involves jumping into a conversation with endless polite, reasonable questions and demands for answers, usually of entry-level topics far below the actual conversation (e.g. "please prove sexism exists"). This tactic differs little from harassment; instead of discussion, the point is to derail discussion, receive criticism (for their ignorance) so as to look like a victim, or to make someone feel overwhelmed and quit talking. It is comparable to running a filibuster (or perhaps a filibustering technique) and preventing anything getting done. The nature of Twitter makes it particularly easy to sealion -- since everything is extremely compressed.
A particularly toxic thing about sealioning is that people who are genuine newbies asking serious questions are easy to mistake for sealions.
The term originally gained prominence for describing the Gamergate strategy of flooding people with a barrage of demands for proof that Gamergate was harassing people.
Welcome to Hacker News, and congratulations on making your very first post ever! You can start by reading misterman's posting history to familiarize yourself with what "sealioning" is (although you may need to set "show dead" in your profile to even see all the worst ones that have been downvoted, flagged, and killed), and refrain from doing it yourself, please. I'm sure your entire life will be more interesting and less sheltered after you have had the opportunity to read all the insane things than mistermann has written, and feel free to read my posting history for much more insanity. But I'm not holding my breath, so don't worry about me.
