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caeli · 3425 days ago · link · · parent · post: Pondering the nature of hostile vs positive commenters
This is an interesting thing to think about. (And I can't help but wonder if you made this post because of a somewhat hostile comment I just made ;)). I'm not sure it has anything to do with age, except maybe with teenagers. I wonder if it might be more of a personality thing. Some people are more combative, or easily insulted than others and maybe they feel the need to lash out, leading to hostile, hate-filled comments. It spreads pretty easily though, I'm definitely more likely to be hostile to someone if they were hostile to me in the past. This is all just idle speculation though, I'm no psychologist...