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Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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those are the people who no one irl talks to anymore because they impulsively take the opposing stance, regardless of how stupid that stance may be, any time anyone says anything
I play devil's advocate in most friend-space conversations, it's just who I am, I don't do it disrespectfully (I hope) but it's just the first thing my brain goes to.
sometimes it's good to examine things from all angles; i'm mostly talking about people who will start arguing if you say "nice weather today"-- shit gets old quick
Yup and guess what they are way more vocal online since they can still have an audience there and this is one of the reasons social media sites are so skewed from representing generalizable opinions. It's a contrarian incubator.
No they are not
I had a colleague like that, he was an electric engineer who was convinced that the Earth is flat and that vaccines are bad.
I know that guy he told me he knows of a colleague who was convinced that the earth is spherical and vaccines are great.
I'm in this comment, and I don't like it
MAGA??