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.

  • Surreal@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Open-minded people learn and change their opinion when presented with facts and discussions

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        The person one responds to isn’t always the audience for the response.

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      When people are toxic to dissenters online they don’t think they’re open minded people