Can someone please provide hard data on trolling, to assess its kind and scale? I can only remember a single example of repeated apparent trolling—comments made by private_messaging and presumed sockpuppets. I’m not very active though, and miss many discussions while they’re still unvoted-on.
Seconded. The first time that I saw any indications of LW having a troll problem was a couple of days back, when people started complaining about us having one.
Can someone please provide hard data on trolling, to assess its kind and scale? I can only remember a single example of repeated apparent trolling—comments made by private_messaging and presumed sockpuppets. I’m not very active though, and miss many discussions while they’re still unvoted-on.
Seconded. The first time that I saw any indications of LW having a troll problem was a couple of days back, when people started complaining about us having one.
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.)
Point taken.
But you’re a cute troll, so you only count partially.
Can someone please provide hard data on Will_Newsome’s cuteness, to assess its kind and scale?
According to Google Images & Twitter, he’s dangerously Bieber-licious!
Yes, that surprised me. For some reason, my mental image of him was that of a man in his late forties.
Eliezer doesn’t think I’m so cute. But of course, when it comes to his walled garden, Eliezer likes to swim on the shallow end of the meme pool.
I’m not even sure he’s a troll—my impression is that he isn’t very fluent in English and inadvertently got himself anti-LW-mindkilled.
Can anyone “name that troll?” (Rumplestiltskin?)