Politically engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic, even in non-political subreddits
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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Makes more sense if you reverse it: Toxic Redditors tend to be politically engaged. It's not the politics that makes them toxic it's because they are toxic that they engage with politics so much. Most people who are informed with politics don't necessarily engage. Of course there are people who do who aren't toxic but the loudest voices usually are abrasive people.
Exactly. It's like a sport to them, though they take it even more seriously than sportsfan, replying to everything with a sense of urgency, like it's just one step away from total anarchy.
I've been surprised by the political discussions here. Far more civil and not as vitriolic as Reddit's political subs. Even with disagreements.
Politics unlike sports has very real and serious implications for people’s lives.
we're only talking about people's actual lives. it's not like we should feel anything. wears beige, pops xanax
Yes yes and the upcoming american election will be the most important one of the generation. As it has been said last election and the one before that and the one before that and so on an so forth.
What universe are you in? Lemmy is far more caustic when it comes to politics. Is a bit embarrassing to tell the truth.
Go through my post history. I've had nothng but relaxed convos. No vitriol or outright hate. Then again, I'm on Kbin so maybe that kind of stuff doesnt reach here. I know of Hexbear's insanity but ive only seen them a handful of times.
Was a part about a cop being ambushed and murdered few weeks back. There was quite a few posts and every single one of them were gleeful. I was happy to get down voted.
Or look at the response to anyone that might be republican. Unless you have the same opinion and echo back that, it is pretty caustic. Personally I like to hear from people with different opinion as it keeps your brain flexible but you will see little if that here.
Idk. Guess its just experience here. I've posted rather controversial opinions about third parties in the States, never once been accused of being republican or whatever gambit. Even with that cop thing I saw lots of hexbear posts saying that kind of stuff but that's normal for hexbear users.
It's legit probably the instance. Maybe you're posting on politics on bhalaj zone and im posting on politics on lemmy.ca. I just browse whatevers on the front page of Kbin which is a mishmash of stuff.
At least its better than Reddit which is just all astroturf and /r/politics who are either bots or so blind theyre not worth engaging with at all.
friend, sometimes shit needs abrading. you ever get anything done without changing anything?
You make a good point. I guess abrasive is different from toxic