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The rules are that you can either be influential or a troll. We just don’t have any way to deal with influential trolls.
by alkonaut 5y ago
The rules are that you can either be influential or a troll. We just don’t have any way to deal with influential trolls.
- nukemaster 5y agoTrolling can be extremely influential if the target holds some logically inconsistent view (which describes much of the urban California politics.)
- alkonaut 5y agoWhat I mean is: what keeps our world from completey collapsing is that 99% of trolls are trolls because they lack influence and take out their frustration on the internet as trolls. Whether those people have consistent views or not doesn't really matter, the trolling part is they don't allow a discussion they just lob in a grenade into the discourse and watch it burn. When someone does that with 100M twitter followers, it has consequences.
- nukemaster 5y agoMeh. People with 100M twitter followers have garbage opinions all the time. Some trolling would probably have the consequence of people learning not to believe everything they read on Twitter.