Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?

ettyblatant@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 419 points –

I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day.

They are only there to sow discord. Only to piss people off. Idk if we can just report them (for what?) but I'd like to try exposing them before responding and interacting..

I am guilty of gobbling up the bait. I've started looking at profiles of people that piss me off exceptionally and noticed they're burner bot loser accounts.

I guess i just want to say I've noticed it!

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The ones that stand out to me are the ones that take offense at mundane things, because they're looking at it through a skewed mental filter. As far as I can tell, they're genuine. I don't know what to make of it, so I just make liberal use of the block button.

That's some fucking ableist bullshit, not everyone is neurotypical you know. Fucking bigot.

You are really proving his point, eh? Or are you being silly and trolling him? I seriously cannot tell.

Could be genuine. People with a skewed mental filter don't like to be reminded by someone with an upright one

Not trolling per se, more like an experiment.

I agree with OP that I'm sick of brain dead people picking some random bullshit to engage in. But clearly lemmy as a community has lost the ability to "don't feed the troll". Or in other words, lemmings get just as angry against the random bullshit as the random bullshitter is angry for his random bullshit.

The correct response to my post should have been "that's probably satire". Instead lemmy went 😡😡😡

The correct response to my post should have been “that’s probably satire”.

Isn't that what both replies basically say?

The correct response to my post should have been “that’s probably satire”. Instead lemmy went 😡😡😡

But at the end of the day, how do you truly know, either way?

Especially when people don't label it as such with a /s.

Understanding context is a skill that has atrophied in younger generations. Reading comprehension is not really being taught in school anymore.