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wewtyflakesyesterday at 4:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

I know you are a bad-faith bot account, so this is not posed to you.

I am wondering why there are so many of these accounts popping up. They seemingly only exist to antagonize. What do their operators get out of that?


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junonyesterday at 5:05 PM

What do 14 year olds get out of trolling anything? A cheap grin and something to do on an after school evening.

detritusyesterday at 5:32 PM

heh, funny you say that - I just yesterday almost bit at some obvious Nego-Trolling on here and remembered "Just don't engage".

Some people, for some reason at certain points in their life, just want to shit on other people's stuff, any way that they can, for... reasons.

I mean, clearly it's not to make themselves feel better, because how on Earth could that work?

There's no value in engaging, in any way whatsover. Sadly there's very little that can be done to prevent that form of human behaviour, without otherwise souring the experience for the generality.

*shrug, whatchagonnado?

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nutjob2yesterday at 5:54 PM

Welcome to the general public. You'll meet all the people you go to great lengths to avoid in the real wold, online.