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

Posted by msmash on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:10AM 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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Sadly... by RobertNotBob · 2018-03-26 02:14 · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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Re:Yes, yes they do qualify as trolls. by Anonymous Coward · 2018-03-26 02:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

Sounds like a FARK headline almost. Well done.
Re:Yes, yes they do qualify as trolls. by NicknameUnavailable · 2018-03-26 02:32 · Score: 3, Interesting

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