• CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I have a reddit coworker, he just disagrees and follows up with “fucking retard” while being blatantly wrong…i hope they fire the guy soon.

    Unmanageable human being, impossible to learn anything to keep him from killing himself (my job is technically life threatening, if you’re too stupid to listen)

    He also mamaged to call in sick for 2 weeks in his first 4 weeks of employment, i was surprised when they kept him on after that.

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      i was surprised when they kept him on after that.

      Clearly did not learn anything from The Office Space. that’s management material and your future boss

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        2 months ago

        I fear for it, honestly.

        Luckily i’m already planning to leave. I haven’t found a good job within reach yet, it’ll come haha.

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    2 months ago

    This is one of those stupid articles that are like “water is wet says a new study” and far more people than it should be say “holy fuck it’s wet when I wash things. It must mean I wash things with water. Omgomgomgomg!!”

    No shit users are trolls on reddit.

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    2 months ago

    It’s called being contrarian, and it’s not just Reddit users. I have several family members like this.

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    2 months ago

    This should be illegal. As a person who was once false flagged manually by network attribution. Of course the anti troll flagging network was itself socially destroyed by time and is frequently cause of scandals while nobody cares for me.

    Add certain language patterns and political stances and you have an excellent oppressive tool.

    The behavior the study is referring to, is actually result of reddit’s algorithms and human psychology. Often the contrarian view of whatever the post is about will automatically float to the top, no matter the topic, opinionated, factual or debunking, nature.

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    2 months ago

    I just call it out immediately and shut people down. I spend countless hours researching and reading and I don’t have time for devil’s advocates anymore. Here on Lemmy I will just block them and in real life I just tell them homie I don’t play that.

  • BeefHouse@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Thanks AI… Using tremendous amounts of energy and technology to tell us something that anyone paying attention would have already known

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    2 months ago

    Some people while cleaning a table just love to scratch it a bit. Why not leave that fossilized fat stain alone.

    Same vibes. There’s no use in agreeing. You are just adding to a clueless crowd.

    Disagreeing helps everyone.

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    I’ve been online since 1995. And back in those days, about the worst argument people had was Star Wars vs Star Trek. That’s because the general online population at that time valued fact-based discussion and proper sources. Not like today, where someone’s feelings seem to trump actual fact.

    If I post 1+1=2 with proper sources, some idiot is bound to come along to argue that 1+1=tomato soup, that the moon is made of aged brie and that 5G on phones is turning frogs gay. It’s exhausting.

    There’s simply too many blithering idiots online who reject facts. And unfortunately instead of blocking them, people engage. Thus giving them incentive to keep doing it.

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      2 months ago

      Disclaimer, nostalgia glasses may color experiences in a slightly more positive light than it really was.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    Disagreeing is not trolling. I hate post where everyone just comments the same thing. It’s has no value, it’s boring.

    When people have different opinions and exchange ideas it gets interesting.

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      read the article.

      Perhaps our most striking result was finding an entire class of Reddit users whose primary purpose seems to be to disagree with others. These users specifically seek out opportunities to post contradictory comments, especially in response to disagreement, and then move on without waiting for replies.

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        So if you look at my comment history at Reddit you would find few “totally agree, here’s an upvote” comments and a lot “I totally disagree with this statement” type of comments. Not because I was trolling. I just find “you’re so right” type of comments boring. I don’t know what the “move on without waiting for replies” part implies. Who waits for replies on reddit? Do they mean they just never reply bak? If so that’s also not typical trolling.

  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Playing Devil’s Advocate. has been around way before the internet.

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    Yes some people love to argue. I get it, I think arguing with others is fun. It’s not so great online tho. It’s empty and soul-less.