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gmb92

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3. This explains a portion of them

Reply to arcane1 (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 04:31 PM

Dec 2014

and right-wingers tend to exhibit those characteristics more, but as your link stated:

"So trolls are, as has often been suspected, a minority of online commenters"

So this alone doesn't explain Yahoo.

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Why is the comments section on Yahoo articles a cesspool for right-wing fanatics? [View all] gmb92 Dec 2014 OP

They're dumb-asses with nothing else to do? arcane1 Dec 2014 #1

This explains a portion of them gmb92 Dec 2014 #3

I think Yahoo gets a lot of them because it's an "easy" site to get to arcane1 Dec 2014 #4

It's why they call it Yahoo. notadmblnd Dec 2014 #2

FOXFIRE seem to had converted over to Yahoo now too.. Historic NY Dec 2014 #5

Reason #1 is now an epidemic HoosierCowboy Dec 2014 #6

Not just the comments but YAHOO itself swings to the right. GOLGO 13 Dec 2014 #7