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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)

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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Why limit online? Someone got into a shouting match with me because I didn't agree with what fox news told him. When I realized what he had dragged me into, I walked away.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Because toxicity tends to falter in reality. Not to say there is no toxicity offline, there absolutely is. But you’ll find most of the toxic people have small dog syndrome. They’re all bark until they are face to face with someone. Excluding mob mentality of course.

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