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

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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Welcome to life, it's always the one bad apple

[doggo1939]

It's always a small percentage of people causing all the strife and heartbreak for everybody else: Less than 1% of the population are NRA members. 15% of the U.S. population votes Republican. 1% donates millions of dollars to political parties to influence policy. Etc.

Re: 1% of the internet..

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats benign as compared to the feminazis and their Mohammedist allies.