Because I know some of you are curious
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Thread Topic: Because I know some of you are curious
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here are some of the sources and quotes I've found regarding trolls.
"The term has come to mean those behind intentionally provocative online actions intended to cause grief or incite an angry response."
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"An internet troll is someone who deliberately provokes others online by posting offensive or inflammatory comments, or taunting others. In essence, they're online bullies who operate under a cloak of anonymity to cajole, threaten and abuse others."
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"A troll is someone who deliberately provokes others online, typically through inflammatory, offensive, or provocative comments. Their intent is to upset others and elicit an emotional response (preferably an angry one). In the pursuit of their goal, trolls might rant (often on a topic unrelated to the one at hand), make ad-hominem attacks, post death threats, or spew hate speech.
It's important to note that not all angry posters and commenters are trolls. Writer and author Tim Dowling explains in a Guardian piece entitled Dealing with trolls: a guide: There is a grey area between spirited dissent and out-and-out trolling that houses the passionately misinformed, the casually profane, schoolchildren taking the piss and otherwise intelligent people who don't put spaces after commas. For the sake of convenience, this group is often referred to as the internet.
Indeed, the internet is full of people who want to share their opinions. But, unlike those angry users who share their negative, but sincerely-held beliefs, trolls may not believe a word of what they write. They've chosen their words because they have the highest likelihood of upsetting others."
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""Anti-social users tend to focus on a few threads. They write a lot but only on a small number of threads instead of spreading out like other users would," says Danescu-Niculescu-Mizi. By identifying this behaviour, the team was able to create an algorithm that would predict, quickly, whether users were being anti-social. Instead of looking for swear words or slang put-downs, the algorithm searches specifically for patterns of activity and it seems to work across multiple sites. "It turns out that there's enough information in the first five or 10 posts to actually predict whether they're going to be banned in the future with an accuracy of about 80%," explains Danescu-Niculescu-Mizi."
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As if news companies actually give a s--- about the internet or have actually been on it deep enough to see real s---. For Fox News, BBC, or whatever s--- citation you're pulling out of the bowels of Google (and you probably don't understand) that are known to overexaggerate and generalize a large archetype of people into one thing (usually negative, ex. hackers) and don't research in different horizons, you depending on those crappy sources just disappoints me deeply.
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Then how about you show me sources you can find that are better?
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Start here.
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