"Gaslighting" has a different meaning (go watch the movie; it's a classic).
I haven't heard the other two terms, and wouldn't be able to guess what they mean.
Sea lions spend all day fighting over [arbitrary thing] to impress potential mates. I'm certain this happens on social media, and that most potential mates are as impressed as they are by an actual sea lion. :-)
Concern trolling seems to be too specific a term.
Re:The endgames of bad faith communication
by camtarn on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:12PM
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Gaslighting seems to have mutated to mean "asserting strongly that something isn't true, which I've personally experienced to be true", or in the more extreme cases, "...which I believe to be true."
IMO it's an annoying corruption of what was actually a rather useful term, but there you go.
This way it doesn't come off an an accusation, it keeps the conversation going, and is generally much more constructive. I found that people who "call out" logical fallacies and the like are generally looking to "win the argument" rather than actually have a conversation.
Calling people out on "bad faith" is common; there's an entire string of terms for this ("gaslighting", "sealioning", "concern trolling", what-have-you). I've never seen it end well. If someone is actually engaging in bad faith then it's better to disengage and call it a day, and if someone is engaging in good faith then all you've did is insult them without actually contributing all that much.