Listing the dirty, dark-arts techniques is a good first step towards fighting them.
The bulk of this work was done a couple of centuries ago, with the same intent, by Schopenhauer in The Art of Being Right. Mass-media and Internet bulletin boards offer new techniques, but a lot hasn’t changed from the days of handwritten letters and literary salons.
The bulk of this work was done a couple of centuries ago, with the same intent, by Schopenhauer in The Art of Being Right. Mass-media and Internet bulletin boards offer new techniques, but a lot hasn’t changed from the days of handwritten letters and literary salons.