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Will_Newsome 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: Will_Newsome 01 September 2012 01:30:07PM 4 points [-]

Well now that you guys have started talking about a trolling problem, I'm quite happy to provide one for you.

(Eliezer, this is what happens when you use words whose meanings you don't understand.)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 01 September 2012 01:32:26PM 5 points [-]

Point taken.

But you're a cute troll, so you only count partially.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 September 2012 09:12:35PM *  5 points [-]

Can someone please provide hard data on Will_Newsome's cuteness, to assess its kind and scale?

Comment author: gwern 02 September 2012 12:30:24AM *  5 points [-]

According to Google Images & Twitter, he's dangerously Bieber-licious!

Comment author: [deleted] 02 September 2012 08:30:34AM 2 points [-]

Yes, that surprised me. For some reason, my mental image of him was that of a man in his late forties.