[EN] "Rage Baiting" for the Gain

In the old days participants in a discussion forum were advised to send flames to /dev/null.

Nowadays flames are not only intentionally provoked, but converted to monetary gain, both by agitators and propagandists and by owners of social media.

BBC article on rage bait:

<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp555xy5ro>

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Words explained:

Flames are called hate these days.

Agitators and propagandists are called influencers.

In computer systems /dev/null, also called a bit sink, is a receptacle for throwing away data whose generation cannot be avoided.