A Troll-Spotting Algorithm

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How a Troll-Spotting Algorithm Learned Its Anti-antisocial Trade | MIT Technology Review

I suppose this could have been posted under social sciences as well.

"Today, Justin Cheng at Stanford University in California and a few pals say they have created just such a tool by analyzing the behavior of trolls on several well-known websites and creating an algorithm that can accurately spot them after as few as 10 posts. They say their technique should be of high practical importance to the people who maintain online communities."
 
Good find, Beancounter.

I especially like the comments.
I think some of them would rank pretty high on the troll-spotting algorithm.
Were those added to prove the point of the article, or are these genuine, bonafide trolls? (Or automated troll-bots?)
 
"Antisocial behaviour" - that is perhaps a more descriptive term than trolling. Interesting.

I seriously doubt an algorithm like that would have been useful with the kind of trolls I've seen in my time.
 
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