Considering the number of rage baits out there these days.
“You’re not obligated to respond”, combined with “nobody else cares about your quarrel but you and that idiot” are the two maxims that make my social media experience better. Sometimes I feel like arguing, but if I think someone’s arguing in bad faith, I just block 'em.
Life’s too short to spend time interacting with morons.
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NGL this is bullshit advice. Feeding trolls is like feeding seagulls…minimal cost/effort, hours of entertainment, and you leave with everything covered in shit.
I mean, if that’s how you get your rocks off, you do you. Personally, I’ve never found vitriol to be in any way healthy.
Hah you took the bait. Hypocrite.
In reality, people seem to follow these lessons.
Lesson 1: Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?
Lesson 2: Craft your response based solely on the title, preferably in all caps to ensure everyone knows you mean business.
Lesson 3: When engaging with comments, remember that everyone else is always wrong; they are part of a grand conspiracy against your unparalleled wisdom.
Lesson 4: You’re not just right; you’re a beacon of truth in a sea of misguided souls. Let that light shine, unburdened by facts or logic.
Lesson 5: Insults are the spice of life. Aim for at least two per sentence, and bonus points if you can weave in a creative metaphor involving farm animals.
Lesson 6: Always assume the worst intentions. If someone agrees with you, they’re obviously being sarcastic. If they disagree, they’re a troll.
Lesson 7: Grammar and spelling are for the weak. Your ideas are so powerful they transcend the need for coherent sentence structure.
Never read the article—why bother when the title is all you need to fuel your righteous fury?
Unfortunately you can’t even really blame people when it’s all paywalled and you have to know the extra steps (or be rich and subscribe to 100 online newspapers) to be able to actually obtain the text.
It should be taught in school, and tested. You shouldn’t be able to graduate without basic emotional intelligence.
People will rage at anything they don’t like… Sometimes just stating a fact will get people going into spiral.
How we taught the lesson in my day
This is one of the reasons I left Reddit (that and getting banned multiple times in a row). At some point I realized it wasn’t worth it anymore.
The amount of obvious karma farming getting 1500+ comments of “engagement” is insane. Just take a brief look on r/all and you’ll see about 20% bait. r/AITA, r/AmIOverreacting, r/PeterExplainsTheJoke, etc all of these likely-styled subreddits are just obvious bots. I don’t even get the point of karma farming.
I really want to know who keeps upvoting those obviously fake AITA posts.
My husband beat me for donating $5 to charity, AITA? (20k upvotes)
The same people who enjoy soap operas and over the top dramas.
I’ve heard of people running it as a side gig. Shady advertising companies will buy your reddit account, the more history the better. I have no idea the price range but I can’t imagine it’s much, because the entire process can be automated at this point.
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds
Ragebait is a fake concept invented by woke liberal media
It’s those Big Calm trying to sell chill.
You mean it doesn’t exist ? Perhaps I should be clear since I wrote just two lines.
If you take top comments on any (even non political) popular posts, there will be someone posting an intentionally controversial, yet unrelated, comment. I guess it boosts engagement of the post, or the commenter gets karma (or whatever fake points) or just some lunatics doing it for the kick of it. The problem is most people reacting to such comments doesn’t realise they were just baited into it.
Hence the thought in the shower 🚿
You took me seriously but here I was on my fishing trip 🎣
Ah. I got baited 😆
More like “Don’t believe anything you read on the internet”. That would reduce the raging as well.
I disagree!!!
That isn’t an argument, it’s just contradiction.
Nuh-uh!
