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Why Trolls and Flames Happen

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the some-things-will-never-change dept.

AnonymousHack writes "New Scientist examines why people are in general more rude and abusive online. 'Psychologically, we are "distant" from the person we're talking to and less focused on our own identity. As a result we're more prone to aggressive behavior' says one psychologist, who also cites research showing messages received by email are always perceived more negatively than on the phone." Just more proof for the Greater Internet F***wad Theory.

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  1. First Post for Jesus! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jesus Crizzle in the hizzle

    1. Re:First Post for Jesus! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You motherfucking cocksucker! You stole my frosty piss and gave Jesus a ripe flask of my urine to drink up.

  2. Oblig... by Huntr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post.

  3. Re:Duh. by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or rather, we could, if you weren't such a fucking wanker.

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  4. How about, because it's fun? Catholic school . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's fun to be fucking crude. Repression does that. That means us catholic school girls, you fucking cunt! We mean well. Make that, we well mean, bitch!

  5. Re:Hmmm by TrappedByMyself · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does this mean every flame and troll post in this thread will get modded +1 Insightful for demonstrating the principle of the article?

    Yes. Yes, it does. Now please suck my balls.

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  6. !@#$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$#@! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    @--------MPU--------@
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  7. Re:Duh. by VJ42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just went through your entire back history of posts (yes, I am that bored) and you've got a couple of 3, Trolls and a 2, Offtopic or two but I couldn't see the elusive 5, Troll. Either it was modded back down, someone changed the mod from troll to something else or most likely I just missed it.
    Just FYI here's your very first post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2901&cid=1468107
    and as of this posting you've made 1791 Slashdot posts. Yes, you really have spent that long here... ;-p

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