&gt;your point<p>I made several points in my comment :-)<p>I imagine you were referring to the first point - that we, as hackers are lucky in our projects and work in that there is often good clarity as to likely questions, but that vi vs emacs means that there is no clarity. I believe that this is not a good example of our work and our close technical projects but rather that you are agreeing with my other points, that it&#x27;s about social dynamics and people being invested in a certain community. That is, vi vs emacs is about groups, but it&#x27;s not about trolling. A troll is an individual. An entire other community, whilst helping to define other communities by its opposition cannot be labelled a community of trolls. Most people do not consider 4chan to be a community of trolls, for example. I don&#x27;t think there has ever been a community of trolls, and if there has, they have never identified themselves as such.