They asked people to SELF REPORT if they held the same attitudes offline as online, and of course they all said YES.
This is like asking people if they are honest people.
This study is worthless.
The only people who cling to this idea are the ones who need it to excuse their own shitty behavior.
E.g. I'm pretty sure some people might think that "swatting" is a form of trolling.
i remember a time when seeing the troll emoji meant someone was being pranked and the small communities i was part of enjoyed the laughter.
nowadays, i wouldn't bother using that emoji. besides, i don't think it made it to the standard emojis.
there is... just something about things becoming popular or going mainstream and turning bad. countless of benign things became harmful once they went mainstream.
Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Also, it reminded me of http://dontevenreply.com/
This guy tracked down every man's spouse and told them what was up. He was sued (and lost, iirc, after about 100 men were divorced), and ended up being interviewed by the nyt. BUT he picks up the interviewer in a limo with his gf near an abandoned mall or something. he thought trolling was going to change the world, his gf thought he was jesus, there was champagne and it was an all around weird experience for the reporter. They honestly sounded like real live discordians.
This is probably getting close to being 15 or 20 years old now, but it was pioneering.
Yeah I had a few what of it.
So it seems like this study's findings are probably not far from the truth.
1. https://www.newsweek.com/neo-nazi-andrew-weev-auernheimer-da...
This theory may be in jeopardy.
I usually give thoughtful responses, but I am for sure can be satirical and can be pretty iron harsh when I think someone is an idiot.
I have been called a troll many times, when I know I have not been one. Many others have liked my comments.
Unfortunately, there is no studies on humorless assholes.
There's that study that shows that 80% of drivers think that they are above average drivers. I think that is the same with humor. Except 97.9% of people think that they have an above average sense of humor.
I like what one of the sentence in the wikipedia entry says under "satire".
"Common uncomprehending responses to satire include revulsion (accusations of poor taste, or that "it's just not funny" for instance) and the idea that the satirist actually does support the ideas, policies, or people he is attacking."
Voltaire wrote the greatest satirical work in Western Civilization - "Candide". Voltaire signed with a pseudonym: "Monsieur le docteur Ralph", or "Doctor Ralph". Candide was in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Roman Catholic Church's list of prohibited books. Candide's ban lasted into the twentieth century in the United States. For example, Candide was barred from entering America: in February 1929, a US customs official in Boston prevented a number of copies of the book, deemed "obscene".
So, I'm SURE that all those stiff humorless assh-les thought Voltaire was a troll and an assh-le.
So, really, my take on it is, that I don't give one little sh-t what people think of me, beyond a certain point. If I know I'm not being an assh-le, then that is all that counts to me, and everyone else is wrong, even if it is 95% of reddit, haha.
