The Disagreement Hierarchy - How do you Argue on Social Media?

Trust me. This article is not as boring as that title. It is actually extremely relevant to you as a social media user.


In 2008, a computer programmer named Paul Graham made a disagreement hierarchy, placing the logical form of disagreement at the top and then tapering downwards to the most illogical and uncouth form of arguing. He could not have predicted how telling his chart would be as a mere decade later, social media is pretty much a war zone with friends, strangers and faceless trolls a...