Occassionally
But it would be very rare that you would get to find it out.
For decades its usually been part of my job skills to avoid such. To give everyone in a conversation with some wins and seek to move a conversation further. Other words for such a skill might be mediation, moderating, diplomacy, or if you want to minimum wage it I guess customer support is another example. Particularly if opinions are those of the management.
Its the other side of the coin from people whose job it is to bring a discussion to an end.