Now, all of you already know that most of the formal debates come with character limit or time limit.
This basically means that as long as you use full character limit or full time limit, opponent cannot respond to each of your sentences individually.
In most formal debates, people dont respond to each sentence, but break the logical link between premises and argument to negate it by presenting counter options or proving that premises are false or assumptions, or try to outweigh the argument.
However, gish gallop changes the rules of the game.
In gish gallop, there is plenty of arguments and reasons which make it impossible to respond to them all.
And since there is plenty of them, outweighing them is also difficult.
The basic way of doing gish gallop is to write as many as possible independent reasons which support the topic.
They must be independent reasons, which means that they dont depend on each other.
That means, if one is proven wrong, others still stand as true.
Whats also important in gish gallop is to avoid assumptions, but use facts as reasons.
That way, you will be creating lots of conclusions in minds of those who read it, even if you yourself never state those conclusions.
And opponent will not be able to dismiss them as assumptions either.
Gish gallop is also useful when attacking an argument.
Instead of focusing too much on building one counterargument, you use plenty of smaller ones, forcing opponent to negate each if he is to save his argument.
The goal in gish gallop is to create a situation where it takes more text for opponent to refute your argument than it takes you to write it.
This basically leaves opponent with only 1 option, which is to drop some of your arguments and instead try to outweigh them indirectly.
But gish gallop is not easy work.
Thinking of enough reasons to fill character space with takes time.
You can of course use google and spam facts and statistics, but that only works on some topics, apparently those where there is a lot of facts and statistics supporting one side of the topic.
Now, the best example of successful Gish Gallop is Trump.
In fact, it made him president once.
He won countless of debates by saying too many things in short amount of time, basically overwhelming an opponent.
