Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO

Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by bilchly on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:01AM (#39667672)

As someone who enjoys writing ragebait posts, I can confirm that in recent months it's been easier than ever to get thousands of people raging over some nonsense. The relative lack of moderation has been very useful in this regard.

Perhaps that actually benefits Reddit though? More engagement even if it is mostly dimwits responding in earnest to troll posts.

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by boston_clone on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:18AM (#39667858)

Why do you think you enjoy doing that? Tangentially, are you below the age of 25?

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by bilchly on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:32AM (#39668018)

I'm actually 72 years old and this is my retirement hobby. It keeps my mind busy and I find it amusing.

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by boston_clone on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:55AM (#39668278)

Maybe try crosswords instead, or pick up an instrument. Less sophomoric, and likely more mentally engaging than trolling teenagers online.

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by Yugomorph on Monday March 11, 2024 @11:47AM (#39669639)

I can definitely see the appeal in making people fume out of their ears over some completely irrelevant thing you said on the internet that they can completely ignore but still choose not to.

People throwing tantrums in public and making clowns of themselves has always been funny.

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by Redoubts on Monday March 11, 2024 @04:09PM (#39672709)

Trolling is a art

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by bglazer on Monday March 11, 2024 @10:57AM (#39669026)

EDIT: I shouldn't have replied to this

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by Balgair on Monday March 11, 2024 @11:19AM (#39669305)

The newbie poster here openly admits to liking to troll people via ragebait. And is also somehow 72 years young.

That post is itself ragebait. They are just trolling.

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by ryandrake on Monday March 11, 2024 @12:22PM (#39670118)

I was going to remark about how top tier a troll his post was. Trolling about your own ragebait-trolling on a site where there would surely be someone upset enough about it to feed the trolling. Really good one.

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Re:Reddit: Return of the Junk Stock IPO by surgical_fire on Monday March 11, 2024 @09:12PM (#39675057)

You are the hero we need but not the hero we deserve.

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