True.
Caveat: This advice apply If you are sure the person is a "donkey". But in a group or forum how do you know who is a donkey and who isn't? You only know until you try to talk to them. In a public forum, the donkey is trying to deceive the public, so it is our responsibility to argue with logic and reason to reach not the donkey but the public who is listening to the donkey.
True.
Caveat: This advice apply If you are sure the person is a "donkey". But in a group or forum how do you know who is a donkey and who isn't? You only know until you try to talk to them. In a public forum, the donkey is trying to deceive the public, so it is our responsibility to argue with logic and reason to reach not the donkey but the public who is listening to the donkey.
Irrationality is the measure. If someone answers irrationally and doesn't understand your response then they are a donkey.
but on the other hand that "donkey" could be seeing that you are not understanding him and therefore you are that "donkey".....
Yeah except it's the irrationality that gives it away.
When someone doesn't understand something, they lash out to cover for it.