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Troll. Sheesh. The only other post he made is an adequacyDOTorg style post about having schools teach mostly sports, with some English and math, and no history or science. And too many questions, and on a subject that themotte would be perceived to oppose.

(And how do I prevent adequacy dot org from being automatically converted into a link?)

Some troll posts are bad but this at least provides some food for thought.

You came to a website full of belligerent nerds who read and write thousands of words every day about everything and asked if reading is worth it. The trolling suspicion is nothing to do with the rules and everything to do with that. Would you be perplexed if you were called a troll after asking a football forum about the economic value of kicking a ball?

Please don't tell the troll why he's a troll. He already knows. Telling him only makes sense from a mistake theory point of view. Trolls are not mistake theory.

For every troll there's also someone who would do the same thing but be completely genuine. I don't think it's obvious that this is a troll, in fact I'd lean hevily towards it not being at the moment.