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dbaupp 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: dbaupp 01 September 2012 12:07:38PM 1 point [-]

The most obvious example of trolls right now is this post and some of its comments, although as far as trolling goes, neither are very effective.

Comment author: phonypapercut 01 September 2012 04:02:17PM 3 points [-]

That post wouldn't exist if the karma penalty hadn't been implemented.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 September 2012 08:44:44AM 2 points [-]

And even so, it's only 15 comments.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 02 September 2012 12:46:33PM 1 point [-]

That post wouldn't exist if the karma penalty hadn't been implemented.

Agree denotationally... but I hope you are not proposing a policy of avoiding things that could make trolls unhappy with this site.

Comment author: dbaupp 01 September 2012 04:40:49PM 1 point [-]

Oh, yeah... nevertheless, the history of the post & comment authors contains some "trolling".