Downvoted for promoting drama by emphasizing social tensions among the community when doing so is unnecessary.

Think of a LWer who has a deep, publicly-known aversion to me.

As inconceivable as a zombie world, surely.

For what it's worth, I often find Clippy amusing, sometimes interesting, and often unnecessarily rude.

But then, I feel that way about a lot of people, both here and elsewhere.

I don't see Clippy as a troll.

The Clippy character is well developed, interesting, and has become a part of this community. I have never felt that Clippy's comments were intrusive, and I do not understand why anyone would go so far as to damn Clippy for breaking character by donating to SIAI.

I think I must be missing something.

I just don't like the policy of playing nice with known trolls

I must say I find this difficult to reconcile with your own enthusiasm for trolling. I would have thought you'd see Clippy as a kindred spirit.

This comment is more likely if Douglas Hofstadter is Clippy than if he isn't.

This comment is more likely if Quirinus Quirrel is Clippy than if he isn't.

Really? That's not at all obvious to me. That's true if Quirrel is stupid. If they are the same person then this draws attention to the two accounts belonging to the same individual. Moreover, it potentially drastically increases the amount of data people have in figuring out what entity the two of them are. It isn't obvious to me whether this comment should make one more or less likely to think that Quirrel is Clippy.

Stop undermining my naive belief that LW is a place free from shitty internet drama.

I'm afraid you're out of luck. With the professed exception of Clippy all the lesswrong contributors are mere humans.