Alicorn comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong
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Agreed - but the process of determining trollhood should probably be nice.
There are nice ways to give up on teaching people. Some of these go by names that sound horrendous to our collective project here ("agreeing to disagree"); some may be more palatable ("changing the subject"). Only if the person is hotly intent on mis-educating you (or others whom you feel are themselves educable) does this quality warrant discarding niceness, and it's probably just a special case of trolling anyway.
I like "agreeing to postpone agreement".