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Just sort by disliked comments to find the trolls on Patrick.net:

http://patrick.net/users.php?ob=dislikes&d=desc

I'm offended I am so far down the list. Have to try harder.

(I was thinking about you when I read this, actually. Sounds like fodder for a guy doing what you do)

Do you think that dislikes reflect troll-levels? Or just level of dislike? :)

Vicente says

I'm offended I am so far down the list. Have to try harder.

“Eagles are dandified vultures” - Teddy Roosevelt

Christ I'm way below you. I'm really a slacker.

I think a better measure is the ratio of comment dislikes to comment likes.

Call it "trollishness".

Heck, let me see if I can put in a trollishness column.

Maybe users with trollishness > 3 should have their icon changed to a troll, and people should be allowed to blanket-ignore all trolls?

Interesting idea! I suspect that many people might choose "dislike" when they dislike the message, but not the messenger. Or if they just strongly disagree with the content therein.

The troll moniker might distinguish them from each other?

OK, there is now a "Trollishness" column, which is simply dislikes divided by likes:

http://patrick.net/users.php?ob=dislikes&d=desc

You can't sort by that yet, but it's still informative.

OK, there is now a "Trollishness" column, which is simply dislikes divided by likes

I like how Cloud has a trollish rating of 10 and just about everyone else is below 1.0.

Of course, if you talk about any hot issue, you're going to have a non-zero rating.

Good points, John. However I'd say a troll is most certainly a noun. Obviously, we have trolls in mythology, but in the Internet sense we can still make troll a noun, since evolving language has made it so!

I mean, text is a noun and a verb now, right?

I think a better measure is the ratio of comment dislikes to comment likes.

Call it "trollishness".

Heck, let me see if I can put in a trollishness column.

Interesting, I like it.

What do you think about adding number of ignores to the troll formula?

Maybe users with trollishness > 3 should have their icon changed to a troll, and people should be allowed to blanket-ignore all trolls?

Hmmm... this could be interesting.