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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by jrockway on Monday February 13, 2012 @12:48PM (#3586518)
What's the advantage of trolling in this form? All he's achieved are a few one-liner comments saying he's an idiot.

Victory?

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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by llimllib on Monday February 13, 2012 @02:08PM (#3586898)
"all publicity is good publicity".

Piss people off == more visits == more sales?

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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by kennywinker on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @04:19AM (#3589283)
piss people off == less links == less visits == less sales. clearly their is a fine line, but I think the best link baiters lead with a premise that is outrageous, and content that is pretty agreeable.
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