I’ve been online since 1995. And back in those days, about the worst argument people had was Star Wars vs Star Trek. That’s because the general online population at that time valued fact-based discussion and proper sources. Not like today, where someone’s feelings seem to trump actual fact.

If I post 1+1=2 with proper sources, some idiot is bound to come along to argue that 1+1=tomato soup, that the moon is made of aged brie and that 5G on phones is turning frogs gay. It’s exhausting.

There’s simply too many blithering idiots online who reject facts. And unfortunately instead of blocking them, people engage. Thus giving them incentive to keep doing it.

I just call it out immediately and shut people down. I spend countless hours researching and reading and I don't have time for devil's advocates anymore. Here on Lemmy I will just block them and in real life I just tell them homie I don't play that.

I didn’t need ai to tell you that

I could have told you that 20 years ago

It’s why people find multiplayer games fun

It's called being contrarian, and it's not just Reddit users. I have several family members like this.

theres also Bots/ai arguing against other bots to sow dissent.

no they dont

This is one of those stupid articles that are like "water is wet says a new study" and far more people than it should be say "holy fuck it's wet when I wash things. It must mean I wash things with water. Omgomgomgomg!!"

No shit users are trolls on reddit.

Playing Devil's Advocate. has been around way before the internet.

I disagree.

Thanks AI... Using tremendous amounts of energy and technology to tell us something that anyone paying attention would have already known

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

Disagreement is a way to promote dialog.

insert 2 spidermen pointing at each other

Thats not true

I have a reddit coworker, he just disagrees and follows up with "fucking retard" while being blatantly wrong...i hope they fire the guy soon.

Unmanageable human being, impossible to learn anything to keep him from killing himself (my job is technically life threatening, if you're too stupid to listen)

He also mamaged to call in sick for 2 weeks in his first 4 weeks of employment, i was surprised when they kept him on after that.

In breaking news; The sky is blue.

More at 4.

Bizarre to have a headline claiming five "types" were identified, but then only describe the behavior of a single type. What are the other four?

But they all agree on one thing:

"Fuck. Spez."

Yeah i enjoy arguing online

Disagreeing is not trolling. I hate post where everyone just comments the same thing. It's has no value, it's boring.

When people have different opinions and exchange ideas it gets interesting.

How to get rid of the last few human reddit users ... and freedom of speech.

In other news, water is wet.