wedrifid comments on Prisoner's dilemma tournament results - Less Wrong

32 Post author: AlexMennen 09 July 2013 08:50PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 11 July 2013 09:00:37PM 4 points [-]

EDIT: More offense was taken at my use of the word "trolls" than was intended.

Be sure to distinguish the "think you're wrong" and the "find it offensive" components of the responses.

Comment author: Quinn 11 July 2013 10:47:33PM 2 points [-]

Yes, the "here's why Quinn is wrong about CooperateBot being a troll submission" comments were valuable, so I don't regret provoking them. Presumably if my comment had said "players" instead of "trolls" from the outset, it would have been ignored for being inoffensive and content-free.

But provoking a few good comments was a happy accident from my perspective. I will avoid casual use of the word "troll" on this site, unless I have a specific purpose in mind.