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by papln 2329 days ago
> inciting drama and outrage between people just for kicks.

or

"popping their filter bubbles", or "are generally interested in boundary-pushing ideas", or "are susceptible to the rage-inducing trolls who run fringe communities".

"Affinity for extreme ideas of any kind" maybe a stronger / more common personality trait than "interested in one extreme point in the vector space of ideas".