If the claim made it seem that trolls somehow totally disappear, then it was def mis-articulated. Trolls get minimized. For instance, there's currently a small

If the claim made it seem that trolls somehow totally disappear, then it was def mis-articulated. Trolls get minimized. For instance, there's currently a small troll group of 3 participants in the viz (out of 100 total participants), far off to the left. But the system doesn't invite reactions to them, and it's evident they're fringe, due to placement in the opinion space. they don't get elevated by our reactions to them, and so it's trivial to discount them while reading the visualization. It's similar to how it works in an IRL discussion in a room. If someone is trolling, you can understand that by their relation to others in the room (where people direct their eyes, stepping toward/away from them, whether facial expressions respond to their ideas). You discount their views accordingly. Polis allows for some of that intuition to return, in a simple visual medium without our physical bodies.