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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 11 months ago

I'm political as fuck.¹ While I try not to be toxic, I will sometimes call out aberrant opinions or counterfactual assumptions when I see them and that can lead to toxic exchanges.

So, yeah, I think the virtue of having strong opinions about things controversial is going to inspire heated exchanges more frequently.

¹ Sex in the US is very political right now.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I will sometimes call out aberrant opinions or counterfactual assumptions when I see them

But why though? You're not going to change anybody mind online.

[-] Surreal@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Open-minded people learn and change their opinion when presented with facts and discussions

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The key words there are "open minded."

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

The person one responds to isn't always the audience for the response.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

When people are toxic to dissenters online they don't think they're open minded people

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