Cyan comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 07 July 2010 02:03:53AM *  3 points [-]

I love that on LW, feeding the trolls consists of writing well-argued and well-supported rebuttals.

Comment author: kpreid 07 July 2010 02:13:19AM 4 points [-]

This is not a distortion of the original meaning. “Feeding the trolls” is just giving them replies of any sort — especially if they're well-written, because you’re probably investing more effort than the troll.

Comment author: Cyan 07 July 2010 02:52:28AM 0 points [-]

I didn't intend to imply otherwise.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 July 2010 02:08:58AM 2 points [-]

I don't think this is unique to LW at all. I've seen well-argued rebuttals to trolls labeled as feeding in many different contexts including Slashdot and the OOTS forum.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 July 2010 07:54:26AM *  1 point [-]

We must aspire to a greater standard, with troll-feeding replies being troll-aware of their own troll-awareness.

Comment author: Cyan 07 July 2010 02:55:36AM 0 points [-]

I didn't mean to imply that it was unique to LW.

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