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Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
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It's called a dialectic.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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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.
This post feels like bait
Thanks AI... Using tremendous amounts of energy and technology to tell us something that anyone paying attention would have already known
It's called being contrarian, and it's not just Reddit users. I have several family members like this.
Wow this guy really loves to disagree
No he doesn’t!
HAVE YOU EVEN READ OP?
Thats not true
No it’s not!
I disagree
no they dont
That's not an argument, that's a contradiction!
This is abuse, arguments are down the hall.
No it’s not!
Bizarre to have a headline claiming five "types" were identified, but then only describe the behavior of a single type. What are the other four?
Survivor bias aside, I'm not sure the UI doesn't make this drive-by trolling worse. The reddit UI (hi Lemmy) is threaded but disjoint, and the excellent response to one tree of responses isn't useful to or seen in another tree -- and those trees will develop in parallel in almost every discussion.
I worry that quips and cheap takes stand out because they're fast and block actual discussion more, so have that mock 'finalising' effect. Ending a discussion thread is not concluding it .
.. and we all have that cousin whom no one invites anywhere because he'll argue the shit out of something like a jackal worrying a carcass, until people just give up and let him wander smugly off to his little corner in contrarian triumph.
*whomst
In breaking news; The sky is blue.
More at 4.
I came here for a good argument!
"This is Abuse."
That skit has only gotten more and more relevant with the rise (and fall) of the internet.
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.
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
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.
Disagreeing isnt trolling. On reddit you see so much stuff that is so plain and agreeable its not worth adding agreeable comment #2000. So it only becomes worth commenting if you see a post where you actually have a disagreement with the majority.
Read the article. It's not about normal run of the mill disagreement. It's about:
...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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Yeah i enjoy arguing online
no you don't 😜
those are the people who no one irl talks to anymore because they impulsively take the opposing stance, regardless of how stupid that stance may be, any time anyone says anything
I had a colleague like that, he was an electric engineer who was convinced that the Earth is flat and that vaccines are bad.
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