"Quell your rage" must be lesson 1 in how to internet
"Quell your rage" must be lesson 1 in how to internet
Considering the number of rage baits out there these days.
"You're not obligated to respond", combined with "nobody else cares about your quarrel but you and that idiot" are the two maxims that make my social media experience better. Sometimes I feel like arguing, but if I think someone's arguing in bad faith, I just block 'em.
Life's too short to spend time interacting with morons.
It should be taught in school, and tested. You shouldn't be able to graduate without basic emotional intelligence.
In reality, people seem to follow these lessons.
Lesson 1: Never read the articleโwhy bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?
Lesson 2: Craft your response based solely on the title, preferably in all caps to ensure everyone knows you mean business.
Lesson 3: When engaging with comments, remember that everyone else is always wrong; they are part of a grand conspiracy against your unparalleled wisdom.
Lesson 4: You're not just right; you're a beacon of truth in a sea of misguided souls. Let that light shine, unburdened by facts or logic.
Lesson 5: Insults are the spice of life. Aim for at least two per sentence, and bonus points if you can weave in a creative metaphor involving farm animals.
Lesson 6: Always assume the worst intentions. If someone agrees with you, they're obviously being sarcastic. If they disagree, they're a troll.
Lesson 7: Grammar and spelling are for the weak. Your ideas are so powerful they transcend the need for coherent sentence structure.
Never read the articleโwhy bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?
Unfortunately you can't even really blame people when it's all paywalled and you have to know the extra steps (or be rich and subscribe to 100 online newspapers) to be able to actually obtain the text.
This is one of the reasons I left Reddit (that and getting banned multiple times in a row). At some point I realized it wasn't worth it anymore.
The amount of obvious karma farming getting 1500+ comments of "engagement" is insane. Just take a brief look on r/all and you'll see about 20% bait. r/AITA, r/AmIOverreacting, r/PeterExplainsTheJoke, etc all of these likely-styled subreddits are just obvious bots. I don't even get the point of karma farming.
I've heard of people running it as a side gig. Shady advertising companies will buy your reddit account, the more history the better. I have no idea the price range but I can't imagine it's much, because the entire process can be automated at this point.
I disagree!!!
That isnโt an argument, itโs just contradiction.
Nuh-uh!
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds
Ragebait is a fake concept invented by woke liberal media
It's those Big Calm trying to sell chill.
You mean it doesnโt exist ? Perhaps I should be clear since I wrote just two lines.
If you take top comments on any (even non political) popular posts, there will be someone posting an intentionally controversial, yet unrelated, comment. I guess it boosts engagement of the post, or the commenter gets karma (or whatever fake points) or just some lunatics doing it for the kick of it. The problem is most people reacting to such comments doesnโt realise they were just baited into it.
Hence the thought in the shower ๐ฟ
More like "Don't believe anything you read on the internet". That would reduce the raging as well.