Mob Mentality
Discussions center on how individuals in groups, especially online communities like Reddit and Hacker News, exhibit herd or mob mentality, losing individual judgment and rationality, often referencing the bystander effect and crowd dynamics.
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People do get dumb in mobs, so that could be true
People have lost their individual minds. The collective mind prevails.
Well, there's a lot of us. Someone's bound to. Call it the Malice of Crowds.
Or just an idea of how the herd mentality can so utterly overwhelm common sense.
I don't think you need excessively large groups for a mob mentality to take root.
seriously. talk about herd mentality.
I agree that situations like this are scary, because they can lead to mob mentality. I wonder why you're downvoted for this.
A mob mind is rarely well-informed.
replying to a group conversation (reddit thread, hackernews comments, twitter chain, etc) is closer to a mob than an individual activity.
Not necessarily an intentional conspiracy, but it can just be that of a herd mentality. As a species, we are conditioned to follow the herd, to go along to get alone. Those that do not follow tend to get trampled, their concerns not even listened to.