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Interestingly, the story strikes as a completely opposite of 4chan.org/sci/ where among army of trolls many intellectuals for many years discuss interesting ideas.

Maybe it's the community size, maybe it's new technology (comment voting, bans and such) but I have a hunch that fools are not a problem.

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Does 4chan.org/sci/ have comment voting? If not, I cannot make sense out of your comment.

EDIT: replaced period with question mark in my first sentence.

Maybe it's due to 4chan's huge community size that fools are not a problem as they seem in smaller communities. Additionally, there is a whole slew of tools to identify (and punish) fools such as karma, comment voting, etc which perhaps weren't as widely available in the past.

4chan has mods who routinely remove child-porn and other questionable, non-related material. http://www.4chan.org/faq#whomod

Are the trolls used as furniture in that setting?

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