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Top sentence according to bookshrink [1]: > There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it,
by peter_l_downs 15y ago
Top sentence according to bookshrink [1]:
> There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it.
I think that pretty much sums it up. Trolls are attracted to the forums with the most interesting/intelligent users (the "best" forums). I think that news.yc has been very successful in terms of the amount of trolling that takes place, especially since:
> The core users of News.YC are mostly refugees from other sites that were overrun by trolls.
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