Academics Study Internet Trolls

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Stanford and Cornell academics studied internet trolls and developed an algorithm which can identify a troll in posts.  But I bet some of you guys can spot them in their first post.

 

trolls.pdf

 

 

This paper presents a data-driven study of antisocial behav- ior in online discussion communities by analyzing users that are eventually banned from a community. This leads to a characterization of antisocial users and to an investigation of the evolution of their behavior and of community response: users that will eventually be banned not only write worse posts over time, but the community becomes less tolerant of them. Next, it proposes a typology of antisocial users based on post deletion rates. Finally, introduces a system for iden- tifying undesired users early on in their community life.