metatroll comments on Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: metatroll 21 September 2012 11:37:16PM 5 points [-]

Owing to my low karma, I can't respond directly to DevilWorm's comment. But this is for you, my friend.

DevilWorm, I don't like to judge a person too harshly. I acknowledge that in principle your trolling has the potential to make a positive contribution to the community. It would be cruel to just say "go back to troll school until you measure up". But to be honest, I do have my doubts about whether you have what it takes. To be brutally honest, the world only needs good trolls and bad trolls, and you are neither.

Bad trolls (in the good sense of bad) are the ones who are born to trolldom. They are the griefers, the naturally vindictive spirits. But among genuinely evil trolls, you wouldn't last a day. If you enrolled in the Sith Academy's trolling masterclass, they would end up using you for target practice.

Good trolls have trolldom thrust upon them. Through a mysterious mutant strain in their makeup, they see something that others cannot, and they are driven to the status of troll just by bearing witness to truth. But you are that sad case of someone who mistakes their own blind spot for superior vision: you think you can see that there is nothing to see here.

Finally we have the ugly trolls, the wannabes, the ones who aspire to trolldom. My advice is, give it up. Don't use boldface, don't use italics, don't call people semiliterate when you don't know where to place an apostrophe yourself. Be humble, accept your station in life as just another commenter who occasionally makes a valid point. It's better to be an ordinary person who makes a small but genuine contribution, than a blowhard who contributes nothing at all.

Your concerned friend, metatroll

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Comment author: metatroll 25 September 2012 04:05:18AM 0 points [-]

limp on for years

More like a few weeks.

All I can do now is be silent. I shall sink into the divine shadow, and will not know the troll or the metatroll, or anything else. Numquam novi nomen eius, nomen troglodytam.