Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

Argumentative accounts that personally attack and downvote, even though there is absolutely zero reason - there wasn't even any disagreement on the main points, just anger on minor details.

That's been here for a while. When I became a mod of c/politics some users stalked my profile to use it as proof my me being a terrible choice. They're evidence was me not having a degree in political science, disagreeing with them on some issues, and having a complicated relationship with my mom. I said simply check the modlogs, and there haven't been any complaints since.

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