JoshuaZ comments on On Debates with Trolls - Less Wrong

22 Post author: prase 12 April 2011 08:46AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 April 2011 02:57:21PM *  2 points [-]

It has been. It isn't clear how they were able to post the top level post so late. Some have suggested that they made additional accounts to vote up their older posts but I don't know of any evidence of that. Unfortunately, there's very little in the system that makes detecting that sort of thing very easy.

(ETA: By "they" I mean the potential troll, not the spambots.)

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 April 2011 04:25:44PM 1 point [-]

Spam stopped immediately when having positive Karma became a requirement. Only a few spam messages appeared in comments after that, AFAIK.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 12 April 2011 04:34:43PM 1 point [-]

Yes, sorry, by "they" I meant the troll in question, not the spambots. Bad wording on my part.