Downvoted for bragging about trolling here—that’s not something I want to see encouraged.
I was quite concerned about this myself, which is why I very intentionally created a separate troll thread (or “experimental thread”) within which to segregate my trolling from the main discussion thread, in order to avoid lowering the signal-to-noise ratio in the forum where substantive matters were being discussed.
By the time I entered phase 3 of the experiment (explicit trolling), the post had already been downvoted sufficiently that it was no longer appearing on “recent comments”.
I was quite concerned about this myself, which is why I very intentionally created a separate troll thread (or “experimental thread”) within which to segregate my trolling from the main discussion thread, in order to avoid lowering the signal-to-noise ratio in the forum where substantive matters were being discussed.
By the time I entered phase 3 of the experiment (explicit trolling), the post had already been downvoted sufficiently that it was no longer appearing on “recent comments”.
Trust me, I put a LOT of thought into this.