Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

efb

Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists?tr=MostViewed


Who'd have thought...

Kristopherus

Yaaawwwwnnnn !!!!!!

Satriale

:rolleyes:

TomoBhoy

It's figures

Fat Christy

Oh well, we can't all be perfect.

The_Valeyard

But the internet would be so quiet without them!

CrazyRabbit

Why did you post this article about me? I'm going to kill you and your entire family!!! But it's going to be a slow painful death & I'm going to love it.

Muhaawhaaa.

Recondite49

efb wrote: »

Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists?tr=MostViewed


Who'd have thought...

It seems these terms get bandied around a lot. Antisocial Personality Disorder and it's narcissistic cousin exist along a spectrum -at one end we have our Ted Bundys and Peter Sutcliffes ; at the other people who say mean things on the internet. I think one is rather easier to deal with than the other! :-D

Frank Lee Midere

Apparantly those of us who comment and post are also more narcissistic than lurkers, but not much more so.

the_syco

efb wrote: »

Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists?tr=MostViewed


Who'd have thought...

Soooooooooooooo...... which one are you?

Mickey H

efb wrote: »

Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists

Nope. Internet trolls are just sad little keyboard warrior ****.

Molester Stallone II

Mickey H wrote: »

Nope. Internet trolls are just sad little keyboard warrior ****.

Have you tried being a keyboard warrior while ****? It's bloody tough I tell ya!

0byme75341jo28

Internet trolls are often hilarious.

UCDVet

I call b.s. on this whole study.

First - it was done online. Do you really expect someone who says, online, that there favourite internet activity is TROLLING is going to be answering the personality question honestly?

Second - if you ask 1,200 people what their favourite online activity is, and *at least* 600 don't answer 'porn' - everyone is lying.

Mickey H

Molester Stallone II wrote: »

Have you tried being a keyboard warrior while ****? It's bloody tough I tell ya!

I often wondered how it would work.

Steppenwolfe

If the article author had a Phd in Pshycology and not computer science she may have been able to figure out the deficiencies in the study.

Recondite49

UCDVet wrote: »

I call b.s. on this whole study.

First - it was done online. Do you really expect someone who says, online, that there favourite internet activity is TROLLING is going to be answering the personality question honestly?

Second - if you ask 1,200 people what their favourite online activity is, and *at least* 600 don't answer 'porn' - everyone is lying.

I'm not sure porn counts as a hobby, possibly 'fapping to porn'? :-D

Mint Aero

Get a life OP. Trolls are the best thing since slice pan.

Hannibal Lecter ≠ internet grammar pedant.

It's a scale, innit?

RobbingBandit

In other news my cats breath smells like cat food and the leprechaun told me to burn things.

Links234

Candie wrote: »

Hannibal Lecter ≠ internet grammar pedant.

It's a scale, innit?

He does seem the kind of person who wouldn't abide by bad grammar though

Links234

Links234 wrote: »

He does seem the kind of person who wouldn't abide by bad grammar though

Thats how he got started on the scale.

Or was it the thin end of the wedge? Must get my metaphors in order.

Links234

He spelled grammar with an E so I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti

I consider trolls to be like what Alfred discusses here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc

And the man portrayed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOy8-fnAC0c

I think the best way to deal with them is the way Gandalf does:

Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not suffered through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm!

We all have better things to worry about than trolls.

Shakespeare's Sister

There are lots of trolls and some are really good and they're hilarious, but the very nasty ones - yeh, those traits seem applicable indeed.

KingOfFairview

Trolling in its original sense is a skilled, witty practise without malice.

What the media now refer to as trolling is just people acting the ****.

KingOfFairview

KingOfFairview wrote: »

Trolling in its original sense is a skilled, witty practise without malice.

That's the misconception that brought trolling to prominence in the first place "ah sure, tis harmless".

Zero tolerance is the key. Swat aside like flies, non malicious and malicious alike.

0byme75341jo28

Deleted User wrote: »

That's the misconception that brought trolling to prominence in the first place "ah sure, tis harmless".

Zero tolerance is the key. Swat aside like flies, non malicious and malicious alike.

You sound like fun.

KingOfFairview

[Deleted User] wrote: »

That's the misconception that brought trolling to prominence in the first place "ah sure, tis harmless".

Zero tolerance is the key. Swat aside like flies, non malicious and malicious alike.

But they are two distinct things

Fat Christy

Without trolls, boards and other internet forums wouldn't be half as interesting! There's a few on here I really admire but I won't name names.

Son Of A Vidic

Ramona Rotten Power wrote: »

Internet trolls are often rarely hilarious these days.

Fyp.

Tail Docker

The Billy goats gruff were no angels themselves. Always the winner re-writing history.

Bafucin

In this month's issue of Personality and Individual Differences, a study was published that confirms what we all suspected: internet trolls are horrible people.....Online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists....Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun ... and the Internet is their playground!

We knew this.


Ruin their fun by being happy.

RobbingBandit

What's wrong with wanting to see the world burn sometimes, there is too much of it any way.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

some trolls are entertaining though. if only all posters were as earnest as you OP

porsche959

The most insidious type of troll IMO is the "concern troll":

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Concern_troll

KilOit

Hate the nasty trolls you see on youtube and some games but some trolling can be hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAvt9_Uw2ms

Recondite49

porsche959 wrote: »

The most insidious type of troll IMO is the "concern troll":

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Concern_troll

I'm inclined to agree Porsche but then again I've heard this term bandied around quite a lot, particularly when debating Feminists whose campaigns and demands frequently are counterproductive to their states aims.

As the Rational Wiki itself states:

"The danger, of course, is that not everyone with a concern is a concern troll - and not every concern is unreasonable. In environments of genuine groupthink, applying the concern troll label may serve as a means of enforcing conformity and punishing (or silencing) dissent. And even without actual groupthink in play, many Internet posters find dismissing an argument much quicker and easier than evaluating it. In addition, the term "concern troll" focuses not on what the person is actually saying, but on some alleged agenda. Thus, if misused, it is the perfect refuge for someone who has no counter to the actual argument: simply ignore the points made, allege some other position, and then accuse the other person of lying if they deny that that is what they're really saying. It's a combination of straw man and argumentum ad hominem: make up something to attack, and ignore their actual points on the basis that since the points were made by someone acting in bad faith, they need not be addressed."

I think the Rational Wiki hits the nail on the head here ; particularly if you're not trying to claim partisanship of a particular ideology or political body e.g you're a self proclaimed Atheist speaking on a forum for Christians.

I've also seen it once too many times the term being used to ignore valid points ; in one famous instance I was told that when it comes to rape the number of men who are falsely accused is so "negligible" it's not worth discussing - a point of view which is unlikely to win many men over!

It seems clear to me that if someone is trying to derail the issue and that there are sound reasons why the majority of people hold an opinion on a particular forum, there's no need for anyone to resort to name calling.

It's also equally possible that one or more dissenters may genuinely support a political aim or movement as a whole but disagree with the methods used.

darkdubh

This is what an internet troll looks like.Nuff said.

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/328999/image_update_img.jpg

Ralf and Florian

darkdubh wrote: »

This is what an internet troll looks like.Nuff said.

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/328999/image_update_img.jpg

Is that the same person pre and post op?

Recondite49

I remember them, they trolled that Feminazi. She wanted a women on the face of every English bank note... seems the Queen doesn't count...! :-D