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    Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
    Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.
    Posted Sep 18, 2014

    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.

    Let's start by getting our definitions straight: An Internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation. Often, in fact, it seems like there is no real purpose behind their comments except to upset everyone else involved. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.

    What kind of person would do this? Some Canadian researchers decided to find out.

    They conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people, giving personality tests to each subject along with a survey about their Internet commenting behavior. They were looking for evidence that linked trolling with the "Dark Tetrad" of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.

    They found that Dark Tetrad scores were highest among people who said trolling was their favorite Internet activity. To get an idea of how much more prevalent these traits were among Internet trolls, see this figure from the paper:

    Look at how low the Dark Tetrad scores are for everyone except the trolls! Their scores for all four traits soar on the chart. The relationship between trolling and the Dark Tetrad is so significant that the authors write in their paper:

    "... the associations between sadism and GAIT (Global Assessment of Internet Trolling) scores were so strong that it might be said that online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists." [emphasis added]

    Trolls truly enjoy making you feel bad. To quote the authors once more (because this is a truly quotable article): "Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun ... and the Internet is their playground!"

    The next time you encounter a troll online, remember:

    These trolls are some truly difficult people.
    It is your suffering that brings them pleasure, so the best thing you can do is ignore them.

    We all know who they are. Ignore them.

    Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”


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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
    Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.
    Posted Sep 18, 2014

    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.

    Let's start by getting our definitions straight: An Internet troll is someone who comes into a discussion and posts comments designed to upset or disrupt the conversation. Often, in fact, it seems like there is no real purpose behind their comments except to upset everyone else involved. Trolls will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get a response.

    What kind of person would do this? Some Canadian researchers decided to find out.

    They conducted two online studies with over 1,200 people, giving personality tests to each subject along with a survey about their Internet commenting behavior. They were looking for evidence that linked trolling with the "Dark Tetrad" of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.

    They found that Dark Tetrad scores were highest among people who said trolling was their favorite Internet activity. To get an idea of how much more prevalent these traits were among Internet trolls, see this figure from the paper:

    Look at how low the Dark Tetrad scores are for everyone except the trolls! Their scores for all four traits soar on the chart. The relationship between trolling and the Dark Tetrad is so significant that the authors write in their paper:

    "... the associations between sadism and GAIT (Global Assessment of Internet Trolling) scores were so strong that it might be said that online trolls are prototypical everyday sadists." [emphasis added]

    Trolls truly enjoy making you feel bad. To quote the authors once more (because this is a truly quotable article): "Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun ... and the Internet is their playground!"

    The next time you encounter a troll online, remember:

    These trolls are some truly difficult people.
    It is your suffering that brings them pleasure, so the best thing you can do is ignore them.

    We all know who they are. Ignore them.

    ^^^^^^
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    ^^^^^^
    I wondered what white privilege looks like. Thanks.

    Why do you hate president Trump?
    I hate Trump because he's a Narcissist, Psychopath, and Sadist who will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get what he wants.

    I answered your question so now answer mine:
    Why do you suck Trump's dick so passionately?

    Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”


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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
    Yep; you're all three.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Why do you suck Trump's dick so passionately?
    ^^Stuck on stupid and the third grade.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    [QUOTE=DonaldvoTrumpovich;3255393]I hate Trump because he's a Narcissist,

    How is he a narcissist? Specific examples please. Obama was one and you were fine with it.

    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Psychopath,
    How is he a Psychopath? Specific examples please.

    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    and Sadist
    How is he a Psychopath? Specific examples please.

    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    who will lie, exaggerate, and offend to get what he wants.
    Yet you were fine when Obama lied, exaggerated and offended to get what he wanted. Why do you find that so troubling now?
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    Another Trump dick sucker. Why do these stupid rednecks love sucking Trump's dick so much?

    Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”


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    No one cares about you, OP.

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    fly shit lickers as I call them


    posters who love the thought of giving pain to other humans


    they post to be able to imagine the people they talk to are being made sad and depressed by their words


    they imagine the human pain flowing down their computer screens


    they lick their computer screens with glee imagining they can taste that pain


    In fact that pain is imagined and they are merely licking fly shit off their screens


    they are fly shit lickers

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    Quote Originally Posted by OG Yurt View Post
    No one cares about you, OP.
    I care


    you are incapable of caring as you are merely a russo bot hole written by a Russian fly shit licker

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    Evince is a complete and total moron, however, she has some hilarious burns.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Internet Trolls Are Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Sadists
    after all this time, why did you pick today to confess?.....
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by OG Yurt View Post
    Evince is a complete and total moron, however, she has some hilarious burns.....
    quit molesting the flys shitting on your computer screen

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    They are immoral and racist for supporting Trump. They are not sorry for it either.
    I don't want their votes in the party I have retreated to or their type anywhere near me.
    Pure filthy scumbags, all of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    They are immoral and racist for supporting Trump. They are not sorry for it either.
    I don't want their votes in the party I have retreated to or their type anywhere near me.
    Pure filthy scumbags, all of them.
    Boo!

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