This is not a distortion of the original meaning. “Feeding the trolls” is just giving them replies of any sort — especially if they’re well-written, because you’re probably investing more effort than the troll.
I don’t think this is unique to LW at all. I’ve seen well-argued rebuttals to trolls labeled as feeding in many different contexts including Slashdot and the OOTS forum.
I love that on LW, feeding the trolls consists of writing well-argued and well-supported rebuttals.
This is not a distortion of the original meaning. “Feeding the trolls” is just giving them replies of any sort — especially if they’re well-written, because you’re probably investing more effort than the troll.
I didn’t intend to imply otherwise.
I don’t think this is unique to LW at all. I’ve seen well-argued rebuttals to trolls labeled as feeding in many different contexts including Slashdot and the OOTS forum.
We must aspire to a greater standard, with troll-feeding replies being troll-aware of their own troll-awareness.
I didn’t mean to imply that it was unique to LW.