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I have no experience with 4chan. But from what you say follows that regular users of 4chan actually don't feed (i.e. communicate with) the trolls and the trolls are still there. How does such a discussion look like? Do the trolls interact only with each other?
By which I partly mean that the meme obviously doesn't work when people fail to apply it.
There are more direct ways to obliterate trolls, but they come with some costs.
4Chan is probably not the best choice of a site to emulate in this context; it's clearly extremely successful at community-building, but its values concerning discussion could hardly be more different from ours. Describing it as "trolls trolling trolls trolling..." is almost a cliche, and one more or less borne out by my limited experience with the site.
On the other hand, I'm certain that the "don't feed the troll" meme predates it considerably.
Goes back to Usenet at least, I'm pretty sure.
This might be enlightening. Also see this comment. Being a troll sort of is a prerequisite to join 4chan.