I tend to be opposed to heavy handed filtering of social media for fear of opinion manipulation, but whenever I dip my toe outside of my carefully curated bubble (say, with a search for comments on Ocasio-Cortez) I lose faith in human civility.
I did not understand you in this way. But I notice that urge to seek attention in myself, and I think that some of the meanest trolls are motivated by a stronger version of that. It is not a useful motivation.
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Oh interesting. I never thought that such an urge is even a thing, but it makes sense that it could drive trolls. Have you uncovered any reason why you want to seek attention to yourself?
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I think that it stems from an unsatisfied need to belong, coupled with extraversion and lack of self awareness.
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