Dear Shadowzerg, you don’t need to create an article to state an idea. You can just comment in an Open Thread. But please don’t. Your autistry would be lost on this audience. Go straight to Twitter and show the world your talents!
metatroll
Karma: 123
If somebody meta-farts in a forest and nobody cares, was it still rude to do so?
If anyone wants to see a top-level post on rational metatrolling, please vote this comment up.
This post should be moved to Meta.
your “book”
The best part is the paragraph on the bottom of page 66.
It does not! It does not! It does not! … continued here
I confess, it was me all along.
What, 9000? There’s no way that could be right.
If all >9000 LessWrongians join together, we can give this comment “OVER 9000!!!!” downvotes.
See my article “‘I Never Met A Troll I Didn’t’: A Meta-Analysis of Meta-Troll Meta-Data in the Metaverse”.
You’re going to get more internet trolls
Sounds good to me!
Afterwards, if you ever want to impair your social skills again, I recommend speed trolling.
What is it that is lost when a person dies, that cannot be regained by creating a new one?
If you go to a really high place, and look over the edge far enough, you’ll find out.
Don’t feed the troll.
Any sufficiently advanced metatrolling is indistinguishable from trolling.
Dealing with meta-discussion and the signal to noise ratio
Owing to my low karma, I can’t respond directly to DevilWorm’s comment. But this is for you, my friend.
DevilWorm, I don’t like to judge a person too harshly. I acknowledge that in principle your trolling has the potential to make a positive contribution to the community. It would be cruel to just say “go back to troll school until you measure up”. But to be honest, I do have my doubts about whether you have what it takes. To be brutally honest, the world only needs good trolls and bad trolls, and you are neither.
Bad trolls (in the good sense of bad) are the ones who are born to trolldom. They are the griefers, the naturally vindictive spirits. But among genuinely evil trolls, you wouldn’t last a day. If you enrolled in the Sith Academy’s trolling masterclass, they would end up using you for target practice.
Good trolls have trolldom thrust upon them. Through a mysterious mutant strain in their makeup, they see something that others cannot, and they are driven to the status of troll just by bearing witness to truth. But you are that sad case of someone who mistakes their own blind spot for superior vision: you think you can see that there is nothing to see here.
Finally we have the ugly trolls, the wannabes, the ones who aspire to trolldom. My advice is, give it up. Don’t use boldface, don’t use italics, don’t call people semiliterate when you don’t know where to place an apostrophe yourself. Be humble, accept your station in life as just another commenter who occasionally makes a valid point. It’s better to be an ordinary person who makes a small but genuine contribution, than a blowhard who contributes nothing at all.
Your concerned friend, metatroll
limp on for years
More like a few weeks.
All I can do now is be silent. I shall sink into the divine shadow, and will not know the troll or the metatroll, or anything else. Numquam novi nomen eius, nomen troglodytam.
OMG, is that the real “shrink”? If so—we’re not worthy! I own a copy of every one of your books.