Re:'Troll hunting' algorithm could make web a better place
by kristopolous on Saturday April 18, 2015 @06:28AM
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I have. Profanity is a weak indicator.
Disproportionally faster engagement over a given short time period and low variance of word choices along with repeated use of n-grams >= 4 words are all much more indicative then profanity.
Trolls are argumentative and tend to resort to trite sloganish language. They are no more rude then the average commentator (which is fairly impersonal and insincere)
It's about a general discordance with a generic community and what that looks like. There's two kinds: the salvageable and the hopeless. The hopeless is unwavering and defensive - irritable and divisive.
You can see where and when users post - them there are extreme outliers - those are usually bot spammers; the next group in, the first humans, they are the trolls
These are not hard things to compute - and profanity has nothing to do with it.
Alas,yet another thing I should have written up in LATEX and sent off to a fancy journal...
Disproportionally faster engagement over a given short time period and low variance of word choices along with repeated use of n-grams >= 4 words are all much more indicative then profanity.
Trolls are argumentative and tend to resort to trite sloganish language. They are no more rude then the average commentator (which is fairly impersonal and insincere)
It's about a general discordance with a generic community and what that looks like. There's two kinds: the salvageable and the hopeless. The hopeless is unwavering and defensive - irritable and divisive.
You can see where and when users post - them there are extreme outliers - those are usually bot spammers; the next group in, the first humans, they are the trolls
These are not hard things to compute - and profanity has nothing to do with it.
Alas,yet another thing I should have written up in LATEX and sent off to a fancy journal...