Wouldn’t it take human readers to separate out the trolls from the new posters, and wouldn’t such human readers need to be paid for that work? I’m assuming a lot, granted, but isn’t this site volunteer work? Who would want to slough through the new posts to remove the trolls from the new people?
Ok, that could sound sarcastic. It isn’t. I really don’t think that many people would volunteer for such work for long, and I honestly don’t know about any computer programs that could make that sort of judgment about posters.
“I realize it’s not practical to separate out new people from potential trolls.”
If that isn’t practical, then our criteria for identifying ‘trolling’ need some serious revision.
You’d think that a site called “Less Wrong” would be concerned about distinguishing between types of comments, but...
Wouldn’t it take human readers to separate out the trolls from the new posters, and wouldn’t such human readers need to be paid for that work? I’m assuming a lot, granted, but isn’t this site volunteer work? Who would want to slough through the new posts to remove the trolls from the new people?
Ok, that could sound sarcastic. It isn’t. I really don’t think that many people would volunteer for such work for long, and I honestly don’t know about any computer programs that could make that sort of judgment about posters.