srn347 comments on META: Deletion policy - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 December 2012 01:46AM

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Comment author: Epiphany 27 December 2012 02:43:39AM 3 points [-]

Then there's the possibility that someone enjoys intentionally pretending to be clueless as a means of trolling and further enjoys that it disrupts people's instinct to provide guidance to misguided rationalists.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 December 2012 06:07:24AM 0 points [-]

That would be incredibly difficult on the moderators. Thankfully, being smart enough to think of that and dumb enough to be a troll isn't a very plausible interval for human intellect.

Comment author: Epiphany 27 December 2012 08:07:19AM 5 points [-]

Unfortunately, sometimes gifted people are trolls.