They're right about HN taking itself too seriously. Trolling here is child's pla...

hollerith · on July 29, 2012

>Trolling here is child's play.

If that is the case, you will have no trouble citing 2 successful trolls in HN comments.

cubicle · on July 29, 2012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3659653

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534649

idupree · on July 29, 2012

"We've limited requests for old items. If you're running a crawler, you can get this data a lot more easily from http://hnsearch.com/api.

Google, Archive.org, and my best attempt at HNSearch API ( http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items?id=2534649... ) didn't tell me what was in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534649 either.

hollerith · on July 29, 2012

On 4chan, people often set out intentionally to cause as many angry or indignant replies as possible or to otherwise derail a productive conversation.

I did not see evidence of that in your 2 examples. Maybe if you indicate which participant(s) you consider the troll(s), . . .