Tuesday, September 08, 2015
3091 - SB27 - Internet trolls
Here's an interesting article about internet trolls. From the article...
Trolling enjoyment was very strongly associated with a sadistic personality, and was also correlated with Machiavellianism and psychopathy.
On the extreme end, and unsurprisingly, sadism is commonly seen in sexual offenders and serial killers.
Here's the link...
http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/feb/25/internet-trolls-are-also-real-life-trolls
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This is very interesting and tracks with a post I've been working on for a while about the crazy dumbasses who post useless and inflammatory comments. Good find.
The association of internet trolling with the Dark Tetrad is intuitively sound; and makes them scary as well. For most of us unfortunate to draw one of those, it's best to ignore them and nor rise to their bait.
Sadistic personalities are potentially really dangerous. They have a lot of scope on internet sites.
While it is true that many internet trolls are also trolls in real life, I find that most of them are cowards and poorly skilled in the art of personal debate or actual discussions.
For many, their debate style is to yell louder than the person with the facts or to post longer, meaningless comments.
Internet trolls are bullies, but lack guts. They take avantage of anomonity.
I avoid those sites where trolling happens too often!
Perhaps they can all hang out at an internet bridge, so we know where they are.
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