If your currency is negative attention, then yes the bird model is going to attract more vitriolic behavior. But when everyone is getting actual payment for being nice, and the troll isn't getting anything, this has an ostracizing effect. Yes I wasn't referring to negative trolls, but constructive philosophical arguments on sensitive topics in the bitcoin and economics realm.

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afaict, he doesn't mean negative as the opposite to 'positive and uplifting', he means serious and nuanced.

I think you're right though. Discourse might stay more positive when people have the expectation of reward.