Editing Factional Colony Ecology (section)

== Online Arguments ==

To see a toy example of this in the wild, see online argument factions. They always have the respectable who draw out their opposition, and the radical who, when the opponent shows weakness, strike them down with gotchas and so on. The pattern repeats itself across social media with a typical such thing being:

Front Man: "Just curious, but are you X?"

Radical: "Ah ha, an A, that's exactly what we thought!"

The politeness of the front-man is merely an invitation to his opposition to engage while he knows full well that his teammates (though not him and provably so not him) will use the opportunity to attack<ref name=tempt/>.

or alternatively

Radical Team A expresses a terrible view

Radical Team B expresses another terrible view

Front Man A: I think we should all be civil here. Statements like that of Radical Team B are not particularly helpful.

Someone aligned with B may then attempt to catch FM A on his isolated demand or they may attempt to say a similar thing against R A but the separation of skillsets and lack of allegiance does the trick to protect FM A himself from any real risk.