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Anger Management for Online Trolls
Browse through a few typical online comment threads, and the need for anger management quickly becomes clear, likely sending sane people scurrying off to more pleasant corners of the internet. Now scientists at Yahoo and their colleagues are devising ways to automatically flag inordinately irate commenters to keep them from ruining online conversations for others.
Browse through a few typical online comment threads, and the need for anger management quickly becomes clear, likely sending sane people scurrying off to more pleasant corners of the internet. Now scientists at Yahoo and their colleagues are devising ways to automatically flag inordinately irate commenters to keep them from ruining online conversations for others.
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After being subjected to few angry fu's and few other insults for linking an economic news article from salon.com and writing a short article on Islam and spatiality of its practice, I can't wait this technology to kick in soon and these people start getting some help!
I remember reading years ago about text recognition that could weed out angry responses: use of phrases like "What YOU PEOPLE don't get..." were signifiers for someone making an angry and a most likely not well-considered argument.
On Archinect there seems to be a lot of anger just thrown out onto the comments and discussions. The rants are nasty, sick and most often not at all related to the original news post. The monikers are all fake names and often a new Archinect account. I like to look at the ranters history and it tells me more about them. All the posts are angry, they tend to be new accounts, they tend to be personal attacks, and they are all directed at one person: Archinect's senior editor Orhan Ayyuce.
The angry rants have the look, feel, language of a smear campaign. A right-wing smear campaign if I can spot my politics correctly. These are the underhanded dirty tactics of an anonymous yet coordinated group that wants to silence, censor, shut down, throw out Mr Ayyuce. I am older than most of you. I read my history. I can feel it in my gut. My grandparents left Germany. I listened to the stories. I know what a fascist is. These rantings aren't just angry trolls letting off steam ; they're worse. And this is how it all starts....
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