A Pavlovian stimulus is one which provokes a habituated response -- one which the subject cannot directly control, and which isn't sensibly related to the stimulus. E.g., salivating at the sound of a bell, a non-food signifier.
A dogwhistle is a signal which the intended target can detect, but others (generally) don't. Variously, political codewords or shibboleths (an interesting concept itself with a significant semantic drift over time). "States rights" as a signifier of bigotry, for example.
So a Pavlov's Dogwhistle would be a signal which 1) is detected by the target group but 2) not by others, which 3) triggers a habituated response in the target group.
The particular irritation is the unintentional Pavlovian dogwhistle. And the person who having spotted it is incapable of reading any further and compelled to comment on it. Thus missing the main point of the post entirely.
Of course all of this is made worse by tech automation taking Google's auto-summary of a link, which then gets reflected through dlvr.it or IFTTT into a Facebook post. The dogwhistle may not be in what you wrote but in the meta-summary or first paragraphs of the thing being linked.
+Julian Bond I've taken to either removing/editing those previews (or eliminating links entirely in the case of The New York Times), or quite clearly stating what the focus is for a serious piece, and removing derailing comments (often with an invitation for the thread to be taken elsewhere, and offering to link it from the current post).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
A Pavlovian stimulus is one which provokes a habituated response -- one which the subject cannot directly control, and which isn't sensibly related to the stimulus. E.g., salivating at the sound of a bell, a non-food signifier.
A dogwhistle is a signal which the intended target can detect, but others (generally) don't. Variously, political codewords or shibboleths (an interesting concept itself with a significant semantic drift over time). "States rights" as a signifier of bigotry, for example.
So a Pavlov's Dogwhistle would be a signal which 1) is detected by the target group but 2) not by others, which 3) triggers a habituated response in the target group.
Of course all of this is made worse by tech automation taking Google's auto-summary of a link, which then gets reflected through dlvr.it or IFTTT into a Facebook post. The dogwhistle may not be in what you wrote but in the meta-summary or first paragraphs of the thing being linked.
There's no real alternative to active management.