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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits::A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Doing my best to change this. I am extremely toxic without engaging in political behavior.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The first step is knowing there is a problem. Kudos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Doing the lord's work.🙏

[–] Squizzy 1 points 9 months ago

I'm similar, I wouldn't say I'm very toxic but I'm like stressed and determined in regular conversations. Struggling to just have friendly chats without being a know it all prick