The amount of “you’re one of them” or “you’re just a troll” out there on the internet when someone simply doesn’t agree or even understand is seemingly infinite.
It’s a nearly weekly accusation thrown at me on Reddit.
People’s willingness to believe someone else is a troll or similar seems to just mean they never have to consider any ideas they don’t like.
Like they come up with really terrible classification categories?
> epistemological emptiness
Does this mean one does not have a theory of knowledge or that one thinks that knowledge does not exist?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyMemes/comments/u1675o/hey...
https://www.quora.com/Are-emptiness-and-nothing-better-as-on...
Rather they just declare their opposition evil by nature so they don't have to analyze their behavior any further, and anything done to them is, in their eyes, morally justified. It is, in other words, dehumanizing.
> Does this mean one does not have a theory of knowledge or that one thinks that knowledge does not exist?
It means that they have no formal theory of knowledge and simply accept whatever is conventionally wise to them (or, more specifically, whatever fits their unacknowledged class interest).
When I started participating in some random forum a very long time ago as a kid, some guy I was arguing with told me to never assume bad intent unless you see clear evidence of it. I didn't get it at first but eventually made my interactions way more manageable.
It's more; you must belong to the Other Team. It's an astroturf account. It's a troll.
For how could anyone possibly disagree with me and do so in good faith?
I think it's just because redditors tend to be younger (and the site is advertising to young people specifically). There's no point in arguing with literal children
Isn't there? How do we expect them to learn? There is no point in getting frustrated or angry with literal children, but I believe that arguing with them, in the educational and not rhetorical sense, is helpful. Children learn from example, and if the only examples are their peers, then how do you expect them to grow up differently than them?
I cannot name a single internet service that has ever been controlled by level headed people. I expect to go on there and just casually talk about whatever I want but within 5 minutes they post a giant wall of rules and my immediate first thought is, "jesus christ, what the fuck happened???". Of course a big part of the problem is that the moderation position attracts a certain type of brain dead, melodramatic, moral obsessed person whereas in reality it only exists to delete spam posts.
* much of the literature about reducing trolling etc. is focused on platform operators, which isn't that useful to participants since platform operators are not incentivized to provide transparency or accountability.
If this is happening so often, then you are clearly doing something wrong and people are picking up on it.
Also, like everyone else said, reddit is basically idiots arguing with other idiots. There's almost no value there anymore.
More for this audience than on other internet forums. For those, good luck.