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In fact, a lot of users seem to post both on extreme right-wing and left-wing subreddits, I did the test for a few of these subs, and it's just baffling. Either
by throw_m239339 7y ago
In fact, a lot of users seem to post both on extreme right-wing and left-wing subreddits, I did the test for a few of these subs, and it's just baffling. Either it's because of the phenomenon called "brigading", where a thread from one side is linked on another sub which leads users of the latter to post in the former, or a lot of users are just trolls playing both sides and inciting drama and outrage between people just for kicks.
- papln 7y ago> inciting drama and outrage between people just for kicks. or "popping their filter bubbles", or "are generally interested in boundary-pushing ideas", or "are susceptible to the rage-inducing trolls who run fringe communities". "Affinity for extreme ideas of any kind" maybe a stronger / more common personality trait than "interested in one extreme point in the vector space of ideas".