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by mhuffman 1196 days ago
Richard Bartle, has this way of dividing up the way what he calls "players" but it works for any social media[1]. One of them is the "killer" with a sub-type of "griefer" which are those whose "... vague aim is to get a big, bad reputation". So, from that perspective, they actually do get something out of it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...