trolls aren't immature they are "machiavellian sadists"

aspekx

this according a recent scientific research paper located here:

 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324

 

Abstract

In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, using both enjoyment ratings and identity scores. Of all personality measures, sadism showed the most robust associations with trolling and, importantly, the relationship was specific to trolling behavior. Enjoyment of other online activities, such as chatting and debating, was unrelated to sadism. Thus cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism.

Kevyne-Shandris

Didn't need a survey to prove that conclusion, just look at the examples of it on YouTube.

 

It's one of the reasons I refuse to waste my time on group content, as there's a subset of people who have no internal compass between right and wrong. It's what you'd expect if humans are allowed to devolve to being worse than barn animals.

 

Case in point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyfqQ7IOoAg

 

On the flipside of players trolling, you can try to make out when publishers own staff get into it (and so free to name OTHER players trolls):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4LTmWo8JJA&list=PLcGIuI4WAGLqQj3lvNjbwiWUAp1jFqxvk

aspekx

Originally posted by Kevyne-Shandris

Didn't need a survey to prove that conclusion, just look at the examples of it on YouTube.

 

It's one of the reasons I refuse to waste my time on group content, as there's a subset of people who have no internal compass between right and wrong. It's what you'd expect if humans are allowed to devolve to being worse than barn animals.

 

Case in point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyfqQ7IOoAg

 

On the flipside of players trolling, you can try to make out when publishers own staff get into it (and so free to name OTHER players trolls):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4LTmWo8JJA&list=PLcGIuI4WAGLqQj3lvNjbwiWUAp1jFqxvk

true enough.