I think acting intentionally to produce outrage or to avoid it are both problems. Say what's important & if outrage results, weather it.
Whether we should only care about reactions or consider the behaviour causing them & their motivations?
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Finding those answers might feel good but they won't correlate with solutions.
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Why? I'm not following you at all.
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Does highlighting someone as a troll reduce their influence, alter their behavior, or defeat their arguments?
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Well, yes. Evaluating people's motives, sincerity etc often has an affect on how they're perceived by people who care about these things.
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But that's not even necessary to look at and talk about social phenomena like outrage-farming, how it works & what we can do about it.
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To identify it as a problem. To see that the tendency for outrage has resulted in a surge in seeking to cause outrage & what this means.
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Consider how to tackle the feedback loop. Sounds like you're suggesting ignoring the trolls & I agree but might need to spell this out.
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I don't think that's quite right. I'm not saying ignore them; I'm saying the categorization of "troll" is useless.
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