Concluding “the vast amjority of online content […] comes from a small minority of people who are probably mentally ill” is not warranted by your citation. For

Concluding “the vast amjority of online content […] comes from a small minority of people who are probably mentally ill” is not warranted by your citation. For one, the current top comment in the thread to which you link is careful not to take the word “insane” at face value, in keeping with the spirit of the featured (OP) article. > The OP uses the word "insane", not outlier. It's clickbaity, and used in jest, but I think it better captures a subtlety of this phenomenon: The prolific commenters are molding every discussion in their image. [0] The OP also observes > Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is. [1] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884146 [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_of_what_you_read_on_the_internet_is_written/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...