Saying something in an essay gets you trolled less than saying the same thing in a tweet. Partly because an essay has a sort of reading-comprehension CAPTCHA, and partly because there's no easy retweet-with-comment for an essay.
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This suggests laziness is a big component of trolling, and that platforms could decrease it by making it take just a little extra work.
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Also the reason why most trolls comment before even clicking on an article
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Determine tweets sentiment + ask Q “are you sure you want to say this?” Would go a long way
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Or simply impose a delay.
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Trolling isn't inherently bad. Provoking (and ridiculing) knee-jerk reactions is precisely the point. It can be a great way of uncovering biased reasoning, fallacies, mental blind spots.
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Doesn't their business model require they optimize for "engagement" and this is often trolling?
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Touché!
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Or fewer people are reading the essays.
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Trolls don’t read
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I love that you are always deeply thinking even with simplistic moments and you have a heart of gold on Twitter at least which is debatable? I’m blessed by you, thanks
To spend time with you would be epic #FriendshipGoals
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Also you don't get followers for essay comments like you do trolling a tweet.
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