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Great article. I've groaned so many time at the way fallacies have been wielded in Internet forums. Also, I hear by move that we rename 'ad hominem' to 'soup de jour.'
My favorite is wanton use of the strawman attack. Which is to say, calling someone out for a strawman argument, when the caller clearly doesn't know what that type of fallacy is. In internet parlance, strawman seeme to mean "an argument I don't tend to agree with." Oh but it sounds brilliant so often.