NancyLebovitz comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 31 August 2012 05:31:43PM 4 points [-]

Actually, "troll" does offer some information. It means the downvote was because the comment was perceived as an effort to stir up pointless conflict, rather than for it being wrong, poorly proofread, redundant, or a multitude of other possible reasons.