Reply To: A Study in Trolls: Updated

Kluger:
I think the alleged brilliance in it is supposed to be that he made an observation that many others had made of the internet, but worded it in such a way that could be effectively restated and reused as “Poe’s Law.” Thus, saving humanity from having to type out “that thing on the internet where you can’t tell whether or not someone is being facetious because they are saying something extreme, but not giving signals of sarcasm or humor such as an emoji.” Now, we can just say “Poe’s law.” With the amount of time we save, we’ll be colonizing the moon in no time.

I say that Joseph is not a troll because of something I’ll call Neville’s Theorem:
Character trolls will always have a probability of eventually revealing the hoax to be entertained by the reactions. With every unit of time, this probability increases and thus the probability of them continuing the hoax decreases. For our case, the likelihood that Joseph has built an “extreme Chareidi man” character and has been trolling on this forum for over 10 years without breaking character is extremely low.