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Any decent troll needs a nugget of truth at the bottom to hook people in.

• tef____ 15y ago
  It is an old question 'How do we tell truths that might hurt?'. If you try the well reasoned analysis, you get passed over. It turns out that no-one pays attention unless there is a fight happening (c.f. tech crunch's reporting style) 'If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessly idealistic, dangerously revolutionary, foolishly gullible or what have you.' The morale is - everyone admonishes a flame, but nothing else gathers posts quite like it. If you think something is terrible, holding back will get you nowhere.