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This seems to be the main problem, but my recent attempts to discourage those who make high-quality contributions to hopeless or malignant conversations didn't stir much enthusiasm, so it'd probably take a lot of effort to change this.
(A specific suggestion I have is to establish a community norm of downvoting those participating in hopeless conversations, even if their contributions are high-quality.)
This is something new for LW, in fact this appears to be the first time when a non-Eliezer moderator stepped forward to implement this measure (in this case prompted by Eliezer's recent statement that deleting posts by a chronically downvoted user who doesn't stop is to be considered a general policy).
How do you define "hopeless", exactly ? Sometimes, a high-quality post in response to a troll's or idiot's thread can be quite helpful to other readers (and lurkers), who aren't trolls or idiots, but who are just misinformed or new to the topic. I personally have been such a lurker on several sites, but I do acknowledge that my personal experience is not statistically significant.