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I'm new here, so i don't have anything to say on whether this mormon2 is a troll.
But, in his response where he explains his motivation, does anyone think he might have a point? Of course, if one's goal is to be received favorably, then it's best to phrase an argument in a way the audience wants to hear it. But he says that his goal was actually to see if people here could answer his criticisms despite his delivery.
At a glance, it doesn't seem that his explanation is taken seriously. But i think that, whether he's a troll or not, this is a valid question, whether we can answer a criticism even if it was phrased in a hostile manner. Although, it could be that everyone has already decided that doing so isn't worth our time or effort.
I hadn't even considered it, but now that you mention it seems incredibly likely. Damn, I fell for it. I chose not to downvote the comment because it was just a new guy who was a bit naive. Thanks for pointing it out.
Now, unfortunately I can only downvote once and not "disable account, disable all detectable aliases, block IP address".
ETA: Now it would seem that I agree with your assessment more than you do.
The writing style is noticeably different, and there are no vitriolic personal attacks. If this was mormon2, I am quite favorably impressed with him.
You're right, all lower-case "i" for the first-person pronoun in comments thus far. Those were my biggest reasons for not being more suspicious.
We need IP address records to check or something. All this suspicion about duplicate identities is very tiresome.
At least that way we would be selecting for trolls with a certain minimum standard of subtlety and resourcefulness when it comes to identity management.