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I've noticed this trend for the past couple of months...comments and articles that are clearly intended humorously being voted down as trolls, or responded to as trolls, or both.

Well, see, here's the problem. 99% of articles written like this are not satire. So you get conditioned to jump down people's throats when you read something like this.

(I am not sure why the "Someone is WRONG on the Internet" effect is so strong, however. If someone really does think like this, we should just ignore them and hope they go away.)



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