People tend to follow their incentives. Verbal violence gets more attention than incisive intellectual arguments. I think if you want to diminish unpleasant interactions, you need to disincentivize them.
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Replying to @Plinz
I somewhat disagree. It's not that verbal violence gets more attention, it's that when people don't listen to you, you are compelled to turn up your volume, and make your point louder and more intense.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
Why would I think that people have to listen to me?
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Replying to @Plinz
I didn't mean you specifically, it's a figure of speech I tend to use. I didn't mean to imply that you don't listen to people. People who need others to listen to them have something at stake.
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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
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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Replying to @Plinz
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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Replying to @MagpieMcGraw
I think that it stems from an unsatisfied need to belong, coupled with extraversion and lack of self awareness.
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Replying to @Plinz @MagpieMcGraw
I think nearly everyone (in varying degrees) has some combination of a need to share, for feedback or even, to merely have their existence acknowledged. Without locality, this will not scale for humans. Joined by the fact that the need to respond to negativity, seems in most,
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to be much stronger than to positivity, the kind of personality that thrives will accept any kind of attention. Others will simply give up. The resulting feedback cycle makes negativity fitter, spread better.
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I don't think awareness much figures into this. Some people (eg master trolls) might do this knowing full well their motivations and their addiction to reactions. Others might evaporate away, without caring to introspect much as to why participation was not enjoyable.
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Addiction can usually be overcome with awareness.
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