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I agree with you about the norm for this community, but I'm surprised you didn't include Suber's class of examples: 'refutations' by analyzing criticism as behavior instead of argument. (PaulWright pointed this out.) It seems like a clear and familiar set of examples.
On another subject, I'm thinking that there's another occasional source of logical rudeness: arguments 'to make people think'. This generally takes the form of dancing back, simply because a proponent suggesting arguments they do not believe for a position that they do not hold feels no compunction when violating their burdens of going forward.
I'm not sure this is fair. It can be useful to ask someone supporting a theory how that theory would respond to a particular objection, even when you don't agree with the objection. Hearing how someone responds can give you more information about the theory and the person's beliefs, and they may have a response that you hadn't thought of.
That is legitimate explorations of the nature of a belief. What I am referring to is - for example - an atheist deciding to argue that God exists to all comers.