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Comment author: wedrifid 08 September 2012 06:26:02PM * 9 points [-]

Will is a cute troll.

I've heard this claimed.

This behavior isn't cute.

Hmm, after observing it a few times on various forums I'm starting to consider that having a known, benign resident troll might keep away more destructive ones. No idea how it works but it doesn't seem that far-fetched given all the strange territoriality-like phenomena occasionally encountered in the oddest places.

This would be somewhat in fitting with findings in Cialdini. One defector kept around and visibly punished or otherwise looking low status is effective at preventing that kind of behavior. (If not Cialdini, then Greene. Probably both.)

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 September 2012 03:45:55AM * 8 points [-]

It's really mean to say someone isn't cute

Alternately, it is toxic to describe trolling behavior as 'cute' when it isn't, and hasn't been either cute or particularly witty or intelligent in a long time. This. Behavior. Is. Not. Cute.. It is lame.

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Comment author: TimS 09 September 2012 04:08:36AM 8 points [-]

Example 54084954 of that fact that true-seeking and politeness are not correlated.

Also, a little fallacy of gray. Someone could be zero on the cute/disgusting scale, if even if it were so awful to label them disgusting.

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Comment author: wedrifid 09 September 2012 03:56:46AM * 2 points [-]

I'd rather live in a world where even if we disagree with each other, annoy each other, or waste each other's time we still don't say anybody isn't cute.

There is a difference between rejecting a "Will is a cute troll" meme being used to justify sock-puppet bait-and-switch abuse---by specifically referring to the behavior being not-cute---and simply saying that someone is not cute apropos of nothing. Your equivocation is either disingenuous or just silly.

Comment author: Alicorn 09 September 2012 04:12:04AM 4 points [-]

I have begun to suspect that Incorrect is a Will sockpuppet. Please cease to feed.

Comment author: Incorrect 09 September 2012 04:18:18AM 5 points [-]

Here's a conversation I had with Will a while back:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/cw1/open_problems_related_to_solomonoff_induction/6rlr?context=1#6rlr

Comment author: khafra 12 September 2012 12:54:23PM 2 points [-]

But surely you agree that tricking people into saying "I think Will is Incorrect" is exactly the sort of thing that would amuse him?

Comment author: Kindly 12 September 2012 12:57:55PM 4 points [-]

This had better not start a trend of suspecting people with adjectival usernames to be sockpuppets.

Comment author: Alicorn 12 September 2012 04:26:07PM 2 points [-]

Yours could also be interpreted as an adverb.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 September 2012 04:41:35AM * 4 points [-]

I have begun to suspect that Incorrect is a Will sockpuppet.

The thought crossed my mind when the edit to the ancestor made it clear that Incorrect was trolling rather than well meaning yet confused. I clicked "close" rather than "comment" on the "It looks like Incorrect is Will, I'm not going to feed him here or elsewhere", for obvious reasons.

Please cease to feed.

Please exterminate.

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