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I strongly suspect that it is the former; there is increasingly a community norm against replying to trolls.

I appreciate the info. When did Will_Newsome go from being the cheeky contrarian to a full-on troll in this community? I'm not saying he is or isn't, but his karma indicates that at least at some point he was saying things people found useful.

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Dealing with meta-discussion and the signal to noise ratio

by metatroll

1st Sep 2012

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Meta-discussion is nasty. Allegedly, troll-feeding was flooding the comments. Verifiably, meta-discussion is flooding the comments. Keep it simple stupid!

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[-]Xachariah13y20

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Edit: Evidently karma loss only applies to downvoted comments, and not downvoted threads.

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[-]radical_negative_one13y10

Thanks Xachariah, this question had occurred to me also, it's nice to see that someone else already took the risk.

[-]gwern13y10

According to whom? It seems trivial to come up with nerds who enjoy 'high culture', however one might term it; the very title of Goedel, Escher, Bach is an example and that is surely a nerdish work.

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