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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. Sadly... by RobertNotBob · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, 74% actually seems low to me. - Just say'n....

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  2. Re:Yes, yes they do qualify as trolls. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds like a FARK headline almost. Well done.

  3. Alternatively: by gerald.edward.butler · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1% of the Reddit users have 90% of the comments/posts that solicit debate and controversy. The other 99% spend all their time in pseudo-intellectual masturbation and patting each other on the back in a self-congratulatory echo chamber!

  4. Re:Yes, yes they do qualify as trolls. by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The trolls aren't the problem, the marketing and PR shills are. Trolls cause comedy, marketing and PR shills cause drama.

  5. Re:1% of the internet.. by sycodon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have to be careful.

    Racism and Misogyny have been defined down to the point these days that merely objecting to a policy position falls into one or bother categories.

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  6. Re:1% of the internet.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    So, you start with a quote out of context - since he was saying that if you reduce your opponents to meaningless insults, you're doing something right.
    Then you follow it up with guilt by association, through cherry-picked editorials on a website.

    And this is your counter to the claim that accusations of racism and misogyny have become too common? Or were you trying to prove the point?