How Trolls are Ruining the Internet

[Josephus]

Thankfully we have no trolls here.


http://time.com/4457110/internet-trolls/?xid=homepage

[CountDeMoney]

A 2014 study published in the psychology journal Personality and Individual Differences found that the approximately 5% of Internet users who self-identified as trolls scored extremely high in the dark tetrad of personality traits: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism and, especially, sadism.

"Machiavellianism" is the easiest and most obvious hint that someone has never read Machiavelli.

[11B4V]

Ask Raz 

[CountDeMoney]

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story included a reference to Asperger's Syndrome in an inappropriate context. It has been removed.

[LaCroix]

Once it was a geek with lofty ideals about the free flow of information. Now, if you need help improving your upload speeds the web is eager to help with technical details, but if you tell it you're struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself.

I really doubt the internet was ever a place where only lofty ideals were posted and trolling rarely occurred. the author seems to project what he wishes the internet was rather than what it actually was

[Ed Anger]

I'm having fun.

[CountDeMoney]

but if you tell it you're struggling with depression it will try to goad you into killing yourself.

People have been telling jumpers to jump since the invention of the 2nd story.

[alfred russel]

Is the bigger problem trolls, or people that start new threads for every alarmist op ed or news article that gets posted, with comment other than a single line about how we are doomed?

[CountDeMoney]

You should have your sockpuppet answer that.

[Razgovory]

Ask Raz

I have read Machiavelli: The Prince, the Discourses and a play he wrote about the devil taking a wife.  I also know the MacDonald triad, and it's bullshit.

[Ed Anger]

the MacDonald triad,

Chicken McNuggets, the McRib and a Shamrock shake.

[alfred russel]

You should have your sockpuppet answer that.

It was a rhetorical question, no one needs to answer.

[CountDeMoney]

Way to stay focused.  Good job.

[Josephus]

Is the bigger problem trolls, or people that start new threads for every alarmist op ed or news article that gets posted, with comment other than a single line about how we are doomed?

[11B4V]

the MacDonald triad,

Chicken McNuggets, the McRib and a Shamrock shake.

Fucking skippy. Nailed it.