Many trolls are hidden sadists

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Because the behaviors are intrinsically motivating for sadists, comment moderators will likely have a difficult time curbing trolling with punishments (e.g., banning users)

Ultimately, the allure of trolling may be too strong for sadists, who presumably have limited opportunities to express their sadistic interests in a socially-desirable manner.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2014/02/internet_troll_personality_study_machiavellianism_narcissism_psychopathy.html

Vitaliy_Kiselev

In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Tetrad of personality: trolling correlated positively with sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, using both enjoyment ratings and identity scores. Of all personality measures, sadism showed the most robust associations with trolling and, importantly, the relationship was specific to trolling behavior. Enjoyment of other online activities, such as chatting and debating, was unrelated to sadism. Thus cyber-trolling appears to be an Internet manifestation of everyday sadism

Full paper - http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/trolls-just-want-to-have-fun.pdf

endotoxic

very interesting read, thanks!

zigizigi

Seems like Dr. Freud is proved to be right. Good study.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Similar thing

The dark side of Facebook: Semantic representations of status updates predict the Dark Triad of personality

https://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&q=Facebook's+Dark+Side+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2F&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%B2+Google&lr=

Fool4UAnyway

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259156979

kurth

Most times when the "troll" accusation is made, it is made by someone who simply disagrees with the authors particular perspective, or more likely, their adamant method. Then again , we have to be aware, esp. in political forums, there are paid trolls working towards ends only they and their organizations know for certain. Psychologist estimate between 2-4% of the population are psychopaths. For example, in Mexico, most psychopaths end up working for the criminal organizations. In the USA , they become lawyers , go into government, and even become presidents.

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Most times when the "troll" accusation is made, it is made by someone who simply disagrees with the authors particular perspective, or more likely, their adamant method

May be. But it is not so hard to see troll.

In the USA , they become lawyers , go into government, and even become presidents.

LOL

Vitaliy_Kiselev

More trolls science

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Anyone_Can_Become_a_Troll_files/anyone_can_become_a_troll.pdf

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