This is also likely yeah. Just depends on the algorithm. Negative engagement could be bad here? Maybe? It was once bad on social media, but then things changed and the outrage model took over.

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I should also add a general conclusion - which is that if you create a certain level of ambient hostility in a social media space, then people can't actually have conversations or share knowledge and the social commons becomes a melee. Basically twitter.

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Three, it allows bad actors to refine their language and see what attacks and insults generate the most virulent responses. Four, similar attacks can get people to react in ways that violate TOS and get them banned OR get them to abandon social media.

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I found a network like this on Reddit a long time ago and have had time to think about what they might be doing. I think it's a couple things. One, it's an attempt to intentionally toxify spaces and get people angry. Two, it tests capabilities of networks to respond to these attacks.

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i have a theory you can add as a fifth: engagement farms to boost the use/age of an account to later sell off so scammers and the like can moderadetly refresh them and have "established" accounts to seem more trustworthy

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