AlanCrowe comments on Helpless Individuals - Less Wrong
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One of your examples of one of your comments being unfairly downvoted is
You support this with a link to an article by Brooks and Gabriel, from 1984, that was part of the infighting of the ongoing standardisation process. They claim
Later, on page 16
So part of Brooks and Gabriels critique is the ugliness that has resulted from considerations of efficiency on lowly hardware. Your precis is rather rough.
They won their fight over invisible pointers that year. On page one of Common Lisp the Language, also from 1984, we find
so your comment was 23 years out of date.
One of the consequences of trolling is that many people have wearied of posting long corrections to short posts. They don't want to get trolled, but how can they avoid it? One simple algorithm is to assess the length and construction of the post in relation to a possible reply. If the original post is brief and if it is constructed so that a reply would have to be considerably longer just to untangle the original posts confusion, then people will just mod down and move on.
If you don't want this happening to your posts I suggest signalling sincerity by putting work into them. If, for example, you tell the story of how you came by your beliefs you will reassure your troll-ridden readers