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One Percent of Reddit Users Cause 75 Percent of the Drama (theoutline.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

Just 1 percent of all Reddit communities set off 74 percent of all conflicts on the site, a new research has found. The Outline: In the self-published research from Srijan Kumar, Jure Leskoec, William Hamilton, and Dan Jurafsky of Stanford University, "intercommunity conflict" is defined as "negative sentiment to comment in another community." These users wouldn't necessarily qualify as trolls or sockpuppets; they're instigators, posting links to other subreddits and encouraging other users to target, harass, and fight with users on that subreddit.

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  1. 1% of the internet.. by sqorbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..causes all the drama. The rest of us just make memes about it.

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    Sent from my TARDIS
    1. Re:1% of the internet.. by gnick · · Score: 4, Funny

      1% of the internet..causes all the drama.

      Bernie would make sure that drama was spread out evenly across the masses.

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      He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
    2. Re:1% of the internet.. by penandpaper · · Score: 3, Funny

      "We must have drama equality. We must come together to fight the 1% so that all our memes be heard. I believe that every memer have a google doodle and that this is a basic internet right. We will no longer allow the 1% to take advantage of the internet at the expense of 99% of internet users. All memes are funny and all memes deserve drama." - Bernie Sanders in the Current Year.

      Don't let your memes be dreams.

    3. Re:1% of the internet.. by Sperbels · · Score: 3, Funny

      On /., 80% of the posts are from Russian trolls and the other 20% are from people on the spectrum who missed the joke.

  2. Yes, yes they do qualify as trolls. by fibonacci8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reddit discovers internet trolls are a thing.
    Tries to claim they're something new and different this time.
    Usenet, 4chan, et al. not mad, just disappointed.

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    Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
  3. Re:Sadly... by gnick · · Score: 4, Funny

    A lot of the conflict on /. is caused by a single username, but not even Anonymous Coward manages 74%.

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    He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
  4. Re:Alternatively: by GrumpySteen · · Score: 4, Funny

    99% spend all their time in pseudo-intellectual masturbation

    To be fair, at least half of them spend time in the NSFW subreddits engaging in non-intellectual masturbation.

  5. Re:Trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree!

    -- comment inspired by Usenet Etiquette