Anonymous #3 6d

not at all

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Anonymous #2 6d

Just a tad.

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Anonymous #3 6d

no. not at all

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Anonymous #2 6d

A little more than a tad.

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Anonymous #3 6d

0%

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Anonymous #2 6d

I mean that’s just like your opinion man.

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Anonymous #3 6d

it is an educated opinion shared by many researchers in the field of psychology based on study, testing and analysis. but yeah it also happens to be my opinion

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Anonymous #2 6d

I’m seemingly surrounded by psychopaths then, good to know.

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Anonymous #3 6d

nobody said "troll = psychopath". basically every human on earth expresses varying degrees of antisocial traits or behaviors from time to time. part of why kids aren't diagnosed with many personality disorders is because it's literally normal for them to possess those traits. that doesn't mean everyone or every kid has ASPD. there is, however, a strong correlation between those traits and "trolling" behaviors

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Anonymous #1 6d

When you say or do something with the intention of getting a reaction out of someone else, you are intentionally draining that person of their energy. They’re energy vampires. When you aren’t a miserable empty individual you have no desire or interest in doing that.

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Anonymous #2 6d

That’s cool, but have you ever actually tried it?

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Anonymous #3 6d

yeah back when i was a child on xbox... but then i grew up, developed a better sense of empathy and self awareness and realized just how immoral, immature and pathetic it is to be compelled to bait negative reactions out of people for entertainment. and frankly it shows a deep lack of self respect when people engage with the world this way. i pity people who find pleasure in that

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Anonymous #1 6d

No literally

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Anonymous #3 6d

Bro is rage baiting the guy talking about rage baiting 🤣

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Anonymous #4 6d

Fair enough! Even when I was miserable, I only wanted to be a people pleaser. Now I’m a little more selfish (in a healthy way), but I could never enjoy making others miserable like that.

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Anonymous #2 6d

Taking the moral high ground in video games, how very white knighting of you.

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Anonymous #5 6d

this is another big flaw with the troll mindset. everything is filtered through a lens of antagonism and conflict. "somebody replied? lmao lmao get baited 🫵🤣😭🥀"

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Anonymous #5 6d

this part is more armchair psych than researched analysis but it makes me wonder whether you got too much or too little negative attention in childhood. clearly there was an imbalance somewhere. anyway, it's all very isolating to the troll, which makes sense given that their natural habitats are impersonal platforms like reddit, 4chan and twitter

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Anonymous #2 6d

This is like National Geographic. Let’s call it Rational Geographic.

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Anonymous #3 6d

taking... moral high ground... in video games? are you high?

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Anonymous #2 6d

I wish.

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Anonymous #3 6d

you heard me describe puberty and brain development leading a more well rounded person and thought "lol lol moral high ground white knight" 😭 don't worry yours will come eventually

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Anonymous #2 6d

Take the “lol” part out, anyone who uses “lol” in a sentence is underdeveloped. Keep the rest in though.

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Anonymous #2 6d

I think it varies by degree and content of the “rage baiting”. There’s rage baiting to trigger annoyance which is mostly either a bid for connection or banter but there’s rage baiting where very personal boundaries are repeatedly crossed and that’s a little different.

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Anonymous #3 6d

i think the most embarrassing part about trolling is this right here. when you reach an impasse with somebody. you're not getting any reaction besides pretty bland and unemotional responses but you're compelled by this impulse to continue regardless. you can't help it. i could get you to reply to me for days. saying absolutely nothing snd not even getting that catharsis of pissing somebody off. it reminds me of addiction

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Anonymous #2 6d

I’m trying to piss you off? News to me.

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Anonymous #6 6d

See, your take is actually better and more thought out than Mr. ImFactuallyRight over here.

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Anonymous #3 6d

Yeah I’m just saying that human psyche is a lot more nuanced and fear mongering isn’t helping anyone

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Anonymous #3 6d

never said you were trying to piss *me* off. try again

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Anonymous #2 6d

Close enough, I think I’m starting to grow on you.

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Anonymous #3 6d

keep your pants on bud. if you're growing on me i'm starting chemo immediately

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Anonymous #2 6d

Dark triad personality types are also highly charismatic and have a way of manipulating people that loser rage baiters don’t really do. Dark triads are seen as very sociable and likeable and not rage baiting losers

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Anonymous #2 6d

Brave of you to assume I’m taking my pants off for you. Admit it. You love me.

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Anonymous #6 6d

this wrongly assumes that one with dark triad traits is necessarily charismatic. many people with dark triad traits are uncharismatic losers. idk man you can argue with the sea of researchers who study and sometimes specialize in this precise field of study - cyberpsychology

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Anonymous #3 6d

dishonest of you to pretend you weren't pants-down-jorkin it the moment you started typing

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Anonymous #2 6d

You must be oodles of fun to hangout with. Want to go on a date?

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Anonymous #2 6d

You’d like that wouldn’t you honey bun?

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Anonymous #3 6d

self report. ur as insufferable in person as u are online and assume everybody else interacts the same in person as they do online

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Anonymous #3 6d

like what?

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Anonymous #2 6d

Wild that you think people act the same online as in person.

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Anonymous #2 6d

Dark triad is machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy, with Machiavellianism and narcissism there’s a sense of entitlement and active manipulation to gain power and control, “rage baiting” online is just plain loser shit and no indicative of people who do actually possess these traits

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Anonymous #6 6d

I feel like either of you haven’t been on this app all that long.

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Anonymous #7 5d

That is a real, recognized term in personality research

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Anonymous #8 5d

Misplaced association

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Anonymous #6 5d

why are you still arguing with me tho? i already told you to argue with the professionals who would uniformly and categorically disagree with you

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Anonymous #2 5d

Speaking for the professionals? I don’t know why you’re dead set on the professionals agreeing with your pop psychology spin on their takes

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Anonymous #6 5d

"hey you shouldn't drink and take antidepressants" "yes i should" "no you shouldn't. doctors and psychiatrists would tell you the same. it's dangerous" "spEAkiNg FOr the PROFeSSIoNAlS?!" stating the dominant position on a topic in a field of study is not speaking for the professionals in that field of study. it's called having deference for people with relevant education, expertise and information. but i know many of you pseudo-intellectuals know nothing of that

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Anonymous #6 5d

calling their research "takes" says it all 🤦 you don't have the range for this discussion, sorry

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Anonymous #2 5d

Taking a nuanced and debated topic and comparing it to something like drugs which has randomized clinical trial data to back it isn’t really the same now is it? Maybe don’t make statements and “defer” to professionals if your last name doesn’t have Dr. before it. Reading a few papers and nitpicking to prove your point doesn’t make you an intellectual it makes you a biased idiot

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Anonymous #6 5d

Research is constantly debated and there’s always literature that refutes other literature, thought this was common knowledge?

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Anonymous #1 5d

The ONLY time I ever saw the appeal was to get trolls to back the fuck off by using their own game. Tried it one time and it worked, but like a day later felt really gross about it and decided to never do it again, even went back and deleted the comments about two months later because I hated the idea that that behavior could potentially be traced back to me

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Anonymous #6 5d

You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer

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Anonymous #12 5d

idk what this m f is even yapping about atp like plz if you think they're so wrong go argue with them like i said hours ago

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Anonymous #12 5d

they're so lost... the whole point i made is that saying "these professionals say this and i trust their research and dedication to the truth" is not "speaking for the professionals" and they're like "erm um ackshually antidepressants are tested with trials 🙄" like yeah you dodo. that's not the poin

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Anonymous #6 5d

but hey let's change it... "hitting kids is bad for them" "me hitting my kids is good for them" "child psychologists largely agree that hitting kids creates long lasting harm, not positive effects" "spEakIng FOr ThE proFeSSiONaLs?!"

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Anonymous #6 5d

now plz say some irrelevant shit about clinical trials again so i can demand you find me the trial where they had parents beat their kids

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Anonymous #9 5d

Thanks for complimenting my human writing lol

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Anonymous #14 5d

so y'all are pranking each other, not rage baiting. it's in the name

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Anonymous OP 5d

Sure jan.

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Anonymous #2 5d

Were you beaten as a child?

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Anonymous #3 5d

You are so weird bro

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