Popularized and raised to a fine art by now-defunct website Adequacy, the Adequacy Style Troll, or AST, brings a blender to the ordinary practice of shit-stirring. The AST achieves its goal by a combination of proven techniques:

• A tone of calmness and rationalism is maintained. This creates an enhanced contrast between the AST itself and the responses, which are likely to be emotional and less thoroughly considered.
• The initial starting position for argument is unassailably sensible.
• Each step of the argument is completely reasonable.
• Substantial, even excessive, documentation is provided.
• The final conclusion is outrageous and completely unacceptable to the target victim group.

in the fine tradition of sokal, trolling is being elevated to an art form. interesting.

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