Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
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
Yup and guess what they are way more vocal online since they can still have an audience there and this is one of the reasons social media sites are so skewed from representing generalizable opinions. It's a contrarian incubator.
I play devil's advocate in most friend-space conversations, it's just who I am, I don't do it disrespectfully (I hope) but it's just the first thing my brain goes to.
sometimes it's good to examine things from all angles; i'm mostly talking about people who will start arguing if you say "nice weather today"-- shit gets old quick
No they are not
I'm in this comment, and I don't like it
MAGA??
I had a colleague like that, he was an electric engineer who was convinced that the Earth is flat and that vaccines are bad.
I know that guy he told me he knows of a colleague who was convinced that the earth is spherical and vaccines are great.
It's called being contrarian, and it's not just Reddit users. I have several family members like this.
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.
In breaking news; The sky is blue.
More at 4.
Disagreement is a way to promote dialog.
No it isnt
Sources?
/s
It's also a way to manufacture dissent and foster division.
Wrong.
Apparently not since most of them stuck around. Fuck Reddit.
No u.
theres also Bots/ai arguing against other bots to sow dissent.
How to get rid of the last few human reddit users ... and freedom of speech.
Thanks AI... Using tremendous amounts of energy and technology to tell us something that anyone paying attention would have already known
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.
In other news, water is wet.
No it's not. You are.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah i enjoy arguing online
no you don't 😜
Thats not true
No it’s not!
I disagree
I mean if you’re on r/star wars or a political subreddit, then yeah lol.
It might be quicker to list the subreddits where this doesn't happen
(Lookin at you, r/stardewvalley)
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.
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?
There's way more than five. (bugger - the images seem to be gone from that old site)
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.
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.
Disclaimer, nostalgia glasses may color experiences in a slightly more positive light than it really was.
insert 2 spidermen pointing at each other
Playing Devil's Advocate. has been around way before the internet.
I didn’t need ai to tell you that
I could have told you that 20 years ago
It’s why people find multiplayer games fun
It doesn't even sound like a reasonable study to undertake honestly, how many times do you comment on something just to say you agree? Mostly people just read it and move on, maybe upvote.
Devils advocate is very much in my nature but not so much when things are being done so obviously badly. Its great when discussions are more philisophical in nature.
I disagree.
Then we agree to disagree
It's not something you can agree or not, it's a fact!