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Originally Posted by Origen
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Hostility towards reactionary conservatives.
I also do not use social media. If I can make posting here unpleasant for reactionary conservatives, mission accomplished.
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Tracking, it appears a version of ideological trolling which typically stems from willingness to dehumanize others with labels that they themselves don't associate with. In real life most of these trolling folks wouldn't have the cajones to say these kind of things to peoples faces because it would lead to physical altercations. Visit your local bar and you will see humans miscommunicate in these kind of manners that lead to fighting. By doing this online it utilizes the fact that you are digitally anonymous and thus has no bite in reality unless someone lets it.
This is old school Twitter user logic even though that version of Twitter died and you aren't on social media. Basically you are hooking up whatever platform you are on by increasing engagement via controversy. Weirdly its a version of trolling that benefits the provider rather than the user who is providing the engagement.
I doubt p99 forums really care about increased engagement, but if you did the same thing stirring up controversy on like X, Mastodon, or Rumble you'd be a prized user there unlike here because riling up others increases the amount of time people use the site thereby increasing ad revenue.
It might backfire here though. On social media it is all about the 'gotcha' moment but here on these forums long form discussions can be had, reputations developed, and this exposes many of those trying the gotcha model. I actually think one of the reasons old school forums have fallen out of favor is because it is easier to thwart those that aren't adding anything meaningful vs on other social media sites where adding negativity is prized.
In another thread I asked if you think what you do changes minds and you said you didn't think it does that. Why would you continue to troll in this particular manner when it's obviously backfired here? It just boggles my mind that so called progressives would engage in behavior that would increase the chances of the guy they despise winning a second term. The last two elections were won because the incumbent was hated. Are your actions helping or hurting play out the future that you want to play out?