You were trolling in favor of something you support? …
This is more common than you’d think, particularly since “trolling” is often in the eye of the beholder. I do think that eridu’s style of advocacy is unlikely to be effective.
Yeah, the idea of trolling in favor of something one supports is fairly common—I was going to say something to that effect, but it got lost in revisions to my comment.
More generally, people seem to have a frequent impulse to harden the self-image of people they oppose into more stable opposition.
This is more common than you’d think, particularly since “trolling” is often in the eye of the beholder. I do think that eridu’s style of advocacy is unlikely to be effective.
Yeah, the idea of trolling in favor of something one supports is fairly common—I was going to say something to that effect, but it got lost in revisions to my comment.
More generally, people seem to have a frequent impulse to harden the self-image of people they oppose into more stable opposition.