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'''Ad hominem''' is the weakest form of argument. It is an attack or defense on an argument based on who made the argument, rather than based on its merits. | '''Ad hominem''' is the weakest form of argument. It is an attack or defense on an argument based on who made the argument, rather than based on its merits. | ||
[[Ad hominem revert]] is an obvious example, one common on [[large public wiki]]s and giving rise to calls for a [[revert currency]] to make such actions "not free". [[Ad hominem delete]] is an example of this weak form raised to [[sysop vandalism]], a particularly stupid phenomenon encouraged mostly by [[Wikimedia]]. | |||
[[Trolls]] also disapprove of [[ad hominem approval]] wherein the edits of some known author do not fire up a desire to track their trail by following [[Special:Recentchanges]]. This tends to create a hierarchy of insiders and thus an [[insider culture]] similar to that of [[bureaucracy]] or [[academia]], where a trusted name can spout nonsense for years without being detected or kicked out, and where untrusted names with proof of their claims get ignored. | |||
[[Trolls]] also disapprove of [[ad hominem approval]] wherein the edits of some known author do not fire up a desire to track their trail by following [[Special:Recentchanges | |||