Reddit might have yet another ticking bomb at hand: r/nofap becoming breeding grounds for violence.
Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities.
Well, that’s a combination of words I’ve never ever seen before.
Also, both this article and web site are weird. It’s this strange combination of a “news article” and a research paper. Which is it?
This study uses a systematic search on r/NoFap and two control forums (r/pornfree, and r/stopdrinking) to define a corpus of violent content.
Well, there’s a textbook definition of cherry-picking right there. Control group needs more than just two other forums.
Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022,
Oh boy, if I had a dollar for the amount of times I saw a news article reference a science paper with an abysmal sample size, I could use that money to buy a decent used car. It’s the main problem on something like 98% of the science shit I’ve see here and on Reddit.
It looks like a threat to ddos or dox someone counts, and if someone says ‘jk’ it doesn’t count. Maybe they should use the_pack as a control.
Maybe they should use several popular forums as a control?
I was mostly joking about having to understand the culture of a subreddit to really make any determinations.
Maybe they should use several popular forums as a control?
Sexual Frustration Theory would be a better explanation if NoFap Army members stated that their lack of preferred sexual outlet was the cause of their violent impulses, and they target those whom they feel were responsible for their sexual deprivation.
Seems like this article could use the perspective of Elliot Roger who literally admitted to this
