HSRP-501
What platforms reward is attack: posts about the other side draw far more shares, from left and right alike, and the approval teaches more outrage.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
What platforms reward is attack: posts about the other side draw far more shares, from left and right alike, and the approval teaches more outrage.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, WHERE YOU'LL FIND IT › Online. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W2b-17.
3. What it rests on
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What platforms do reward is attack: posts about the other side draw far more shares, from liberal and conservative sources alike, and the approval teaches their authors more outrage [SRC-709] [SRC-912].
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.
The register defines PROBABLE as: Well supported, but an interpretation or connection across sources rather than something a source states directly.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-499 · PROBABLE · Echo chambers are real but smaller than the popular picture: most news diets overlap, and a small, very active segment lives on a one-sided diet.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-500 · PROBABLE · Switching off ranking, removing reshares or cutting like-minded sources changed exposure but not polarization or political attitudes, in short tests mostly in one country.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-502 · PROBABLE · Social media so far gathers existing hives, makes them look larger and more extreme, rewards their attacks and coordinates them; whether algorithms create hives over years is an OPEN QUESTION.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“What platforms reward is attack: posts about the other side draw far more shares, from left and right alike, and the approval teaches more outrage — PROBABLE”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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