Posted on 04/15/2015 6:07:23 AM PDT by House Atreides
After an 18-month study of banned commenters on cnn.com, breitbart.com and ign.com, three researchers claim they can identify Internet trolls with great accuracy. The say their system can spot an inflammatory commenter in less than 10 posts.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
It isn’t for “trolls”. It is to identify and quash conservative activists who have purpose.
After calling Nancy Pelosi an infected rectal wart on twitter, she’d have to be a moron to miss me.
Um, no.
> Jeez, I think I have minimal difficulties finding the Trolls on Free Republic.
Some days I could almost believe that FR's mods encourage (or at least permit) certain trolling behavior, depending on topic.
But then what do I know? :)
Everybody has their opinion.
“It isn’t for “trolls”. It is to identify and quash conservative activists who have purpose.”
My thoughts exactly.
They’ll spot me in just one if I actually post here what I am thinking...
It could certainly be used that way.
A word to the wise...
Sometimes I think they find me...
This is a simple agreement or conformity algorithm. If the poster disagrees, then they will be labeled a troll.
Troll ID criterion: anyone who disagrees with the ‘Rat fascist line.
I am a Troll magnet.
Too bad they apparently can’t spot poor grammar.
It’s “FEWER than 10 posts”, not “less than 10 posts”.
Exactly.
Breitbart is a messy site with videos running in side bars, pop ups everywhere etc. My computer often freezes up when I’m there. They need to clean up their act if they want to be taken seriously.
People misunderstand just what is a red line. A red line is aline that indicates a minimum expected and encouraged activity.
Wow. This writer actually had the nerve to accuse others of using poor grammar.
“...which compared anti-social users, or “Future Banned Users” (FBUs), to more cooperative commenters, or “Never Banned Users” (NBUs). Nearly all of the 10,000 FBUs studied commented at a lower perceived standard of literacy and clarity than the average, and this standard only declined until they were banned.”
And...here we were worried about the NSA and Net Neutrality.
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