[Meta] How did you find Logically Fallacious?
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I don't know if meta posts are allowed or not, but, title. How did you find the website?
I first ran into Logically Fallacious in 2016, when I started learning about fallacies, logic and argumentation. At the time I was associated with the 'anti-feminist' side of YouTube and was subscribed to a lot of content creators critical of social justice. Seeing the awful argumentation put forward by the social justice crowd (at least, I thought their arguments were awful) made me want to go deeper - to learn exactly why their reasoning failed, and how to articulate this. After I quit making YouTube video content, I switched to arguing with perceived idiots in the comments section, hoping to spread the glorious word of small-government, pro-business conservatism.
I didn't make an account on LF because I typically lurk, but I did start learning more about mis-manoeuvres of logic after 2016 - partly thanks to the fallacy collection here - and took pride in knowing all of these complex terms of failures of people's reasoning (in hindsight, not only was I a moron, but I was also deluded, failing to realise that the Argument from Fallacy was a thing). Back then, Dr Bo hadn't butchered redesigned the website, so it was more like a debate site than Q&A (which went against his intentions, I believe). My interest in fallacies dropped after 2017 began and I stopped debating people in the YouTube comments, and so I forgot about Logically Fallacious. However, the knowledge never quite left me and, through 2017, 2018 and 2019, I slowly added to this knowledge, even as my political views shifted.
In early 2020 (January-February time) I once again took interest in the site (after spending time on RationalWiki in late 2019-early 2020 and becoming obsessed with fallacies again). Eventually, on 31 March 2020, I made an account - and here we are.
Once again, I don't know if these types of posts are allowed, but I wanted to post something different.
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