Digital Composite Red rubber stamp effect - Ragebait. Ragebaiting is a slang term for encouraging outrage on social media channels or under some journalists. To ragebait the journalist will during a voxpox ask a question which they know will illicit an angry response which in turn will illicit an angry response. Like clickbait this results in more hits and therefore more advertising revenue. troll, trolling, rage-bait, rage-baiting,