CronoDAS comments on The problem with too many rational memes - Less Wrong
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Christopher Hitchens was basically the pre-Internet equivalent of a troll. He worked very hard at rubbing people the wrong way. (Someone like that can often be very entertaining to watch, as on the TV show House, but it's not fun to be the target of that kind of thing.)
Literate ones are called contrarians.
Actually, I think the term might be gadfly...