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Luke_A_Somers comments on Dealing with trolling and the signal to noise ratio - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: JoshuaZ 31 August 2012 01:26PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 31 August 2012 06:20:01PM 3 points [-]
  • No - I know you aren't serious, but... seriously?
  • If you meet a Socrates anywhere it has troll-nature. That's why he got permabanned from the universe. It also has other less irritating natures.
Comment author: [deleted] 31 August 2012 06:24:33PM 3 points [-]

No - I know you aren't serious, but... seriously?

I have often seen trolls trolling by discussing the troll-nature.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 September 2012 04:08:06PM 3 points [-]

Trolls can troll on any topic at hand. Where there are trolls, trolling will often be a topic at hand.

That doesn't make the nature of trolls a trollish topic. You're going to have to do a lot better than a correlation.