Re:'Troll hunting' algorithm could make web a better place
by xnull2guest on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:17AM
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Right, but you can find correlations between being black and committing crime - compiling data and running logistic regressions be damned.
These measures they came up with are heuristic proxy measures at the very best, and noise at the worst.
The troll hunting algorithm has to face the false positive problem [1], which the paper does not address.
My very legitimate content has been censored various places (notably Facebook) because it tripped 'anti-trolling and scam algorithms' but the things I was trying to post were Snowden and Manning, and TPP leaks.
These measures they came up with are heuristic proxy measures at the very best, and noise at the worst.
The troll hunting algorithm has to face the false positive problem [1], which the paper does not address.
My very legitimate content has been censored various places (notably Facebook) because it tripped 'anti-trolling and scam algorithms' but the things I was trying to post were Snowden and Manning, and TPP leaks.
[1] http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/238