People have commented there (yes, I too am guilty) even if it was clear that the author of the posts doesn’t actually react to our arguments. After he was rude and had admitted to do it on purpose. After commiting several fallacies, after generating an unreasonable amount of text of mediocre to low quality, after saying that he is neither trying to convince anyone nor he is willing to learn anything nor he aims for agreement.
These are assertions, which may or may not be correct, but you have not given any examples or arguments for them.
In short, perhaps all symptoms of trolling were present, and still, people were repeatedly patiently explaining what’s wrong with the author’s position. Which reaction is, I must admit, sort of amazing
Does being amazed cause you to question some of your assertions?
but on the other hand, it is hard to deny that the whole discussion was detrimental to the quality of LW content and was mostly a waste of time.
How do you know it was mostly a waste of time? Do you speak for everyone here? Have you spoken to all the participants?
These are assertions, which may or may not be correct, but you have not given any examples or arguments for them.
Does being amazed cause you to question some of your assertions?
How do you know it was mostly a waste of time? Do you speak for everyone here? Have you spoken to all the participants?