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FOX NEWS: just where does "stupid" stop?
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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1417927" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/sadists-psychopaths-find-new-home-online/" target="_blank">http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/sadists-psychopaths-find-new-home-online/</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Sadists, psychopaths find new home online</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Trolls' antisocial behaviors forcing companies to eliminate popular feature</strong></span></p><p>A recent study suggests that Internet trolls could be the same type of people who, before the Internet age, would have taken their aggression out in a way that is physically violent and harmful to others.</p><p>This month’s issue of <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324" target="_blank">Personality and Individual Differences</a> published the results of the “Trolls Just Want to Have Fun” study in which more than 1,200 people participated. The <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324" target="_blank">study</a> tested the personality traits of Internet trolls and compared them to the population at large.</p><p>They wanted to determine whether or not those who troll have common “noxious” personality traits and, specifically, whether they fit into the “Dark Tetrad” – the Machiavellian personality combination that is found to lead to antisocial behaviors such as psychosis, narcissism, sadism and psychopathy.</p><p>The problem of trolls has become a major issue for sites that are forced to hire full-time monitors to sift through the trolls’ injections. Trolls often take much joy in disruption have found ways to overwhelm even the savviest of websites.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1417927, member: 12952"] [url]http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/sadists-psychopaths-find-new-home-online/[/url] [SIZE=6][B]Sadists, psychopaths find new home online[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B]Trolls' antisocial behaviors forcing companies to eliminate popular feature[/B][/SIZE] A recent study suggests that Internet trolls could be the same type of people who, before the Internet age, would have taken their aggression out in a way that is physically violent and harmful to others. This month’s issue of [URL='http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324']Personality and Individual Differences[/URL] published the results of the “Trolls Just Want to Have Fun” study in which more than 1,200 people participated. The [URL='http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886914000324']study[/URL] tested the personality traits of Internet trolls and compared them to the population at large. They wanted to determine whether or not those who troll have common “noxious” personality traits and, specifically, whether they fit into the “Dark Tetrad” – the Machiavellian personality combination that is found to lead to antisocial behaviors such as psychosis, narcissism, sadism and psychopathy. The problem of trolls has become a major issue for sites that are forced to hire full-time monitors to sift through the trolls’ injections. Trolls often take much joy in disruption have found ways to overwhelm even the savviest of websites. [/QUOTE]
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