Comment on Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?
nicetriangle@kbin.social 9 months ago
Yeah I've encountered a few accounts lately who either have mental health issues or are bots designs to stir discord. Their entire posting history is divisive shit stirring.
Funny how every 4 years the internet gets markedly nastier. I wonder why???
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
Yes. Exactly what I‘ve seen as well. The election year thing might be the reason though. I know a couple people with mh issues. They’re no problem. These accounts either belong to severely deranged individuals or bots.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 9 months ago
Yep I remember this pattern of behavior distinctly from last time.
One of the big ones that sticks out is you start seeing a lot of people claiming to be democrats or left aligned showing up all of a sudden and being big time concern trolls and talking about sitting out the election and/or claiming that there's no difference between voting democrat or republican, which is demonstrably absolute horse shit.
And just a lot of added vitriol. It seems like even politically unrelated discussions get meaner and more argumentative. I expect it's just gonna get worse as we get closer to November. It's only the beginning February. Ugh.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
Yeah, I‘ll just block communities now instead of people, until morale improves. :)
Thanks for elaborating. I enjoyed reading it.
One thing that makes me sad about lemmy is that if you find people with „based“ opinions, longer/more regular discussions with them seem impossible. I used to talk to folks in reddit pms a lot when i was at my worst. Helped me immensely.
Well, have a good one.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Not discrediting mental health issues, but being “severely deranged” is a mental health issue
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 9 months ago
I had to check because I used the word meaning something else. You are correct. It is described as losing grip with reality, turning mad or insane. That would by definition be a mh issue.
What I meant was hurting others on purpose, e.g. for fun or other means. I dont know a good word for that. Maybe evil, abusive?
To be clear: I dont discriminate based on mental health issues, only on intent.