I just had to look up what a “concern troll” was. Very interesting! I’ve been aware of this concept, but never knew there was a term for it. Yeah, I feel like concern trolls are among my greatest downzapping prey. If they’re not concern trolls, they’re just folks making straw man arguments, so either way they’re cooking up good downzap fodder. I agree with @Tef that downzaps over disagreements is certainly collateral damage for all of this though. Maybe the virtues and vices of downzaps are all just an examples of the value of multiple venues for public discourse.
I just had to look up what a “concern troll” was. Very interesting! I’ve been aware of this concept, but never knew there was a term for it. Yeah, I feel like concern trolls are among my greatest downzapping prey. If they’re not concern trolls, they’re just folks making straw man arguments, so either way they’re cooking up good downzap fodder. I agree with @Tef that downzaps over disagreements is certainly collateral damage for all of this though. Maybe the virtues and vices of downzaps are all just an examples of the value of multiple venues for public discourse.