>>57953082Because unfortunately we're ALL autistic - we're pokemon fans. When we get worked up and think we're right it's very hard for us to see how anyone could possibly think otherwise. Even when we're the one in the wrong or it's something subjective we don't listen to reason we just get mad, just think it takes a special kind of retard to actually be that stupid so surely there can't be more than one person that dumb here. And most of us know better than to waste our time arguing, but none of us is immune.
Ironically, in the last 15 years I've never seen anyone actually samefagging in an argument. Usually people openly admit to double/multi posting because they reached character limit or thought of something after they hit post, despite being anonymous here people want credit when they "win." Nearly every confirmed case of samefagging has been someone wanting attention for their fake leak or youtube video essay or whatever they posted for (you)s.
Unfortunately, samefagging or not it's the arguing in circles that's the problem. It's only gotten worse as every topic becomes more polarizing and the internet becomes more centralized. Social media encourages tying your account to your real identity, everything there is at risk of being seen by irl friends, family, and employers plus it's strictly auto-moderated with little hope of getting human help in a dispute so anything you post there ends up unnaturally curated. Here there's no accountability at all because there's no good way to identify or ban most users and the moderation is, at least on /vp/, quite absent. The same guy can tell you to kill yourself over your favorite pokemon in one thread and call you the most based chad for how you rank each game in another - both are acceptable so people go nuts with it. Spam is unstoppable - range bans catch too many innocent bystanders, banning individual ip's is just playing wack-a-mole. Forums used to be a good balance, but they're basically dead now.