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Try instead to 'ping' the other person. Once you've communicated a concept, ask "does that make sense?" or something similar, and see what they say. (This also has a way of forcing people to pay closer attention to you, since passive listening may not be enough... I have this habit. Is it Dark Arts?)
People ignore me when I do things like that, too.
That sounds like rudeness.
(You're not persuading someone to accept a proposition as true, so I don't think it would fall under the definition of Dark Arts. I'd class it as 'potential social skill', similar to those above.)
(I may try too hard sometimes to not manipulate people. I think that it's possible that I may use manipulative tactics without realizing it myself, so I worry about things like this. I might be persuading people that the proposition 'what I am saying is something you value highly enough to pay close attention to me' is true, for example.)