# Community managers are psychopaths

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-managers-are-psychopaths/610467>\
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**Created:** [January 24, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-managers-are-psychopaths/610467 "2012-01-24T02:45:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-managers-are-psychopaths/610467/1 "2012-01-24T02:45:23Z")

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Somehow this made me think of the SDMB.

> **[Community Managers are Psychopaths - The Anti-Social Media](http://www.theantisocialmedia.com/anti-social-media/community-managers-are-psychopaths/)**
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> It takes a special kind of madness possessed by serial killers and psychopaths to be a community manager.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/community-managers-are-psychopaths/610467/2 "2012-01-24T02:55:12Z")

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The only parts of that article that I don’t understand are “Sure, you get paid to deal with all this madness” and “cool sounding job title.”🙂