'Troll hunting' algorithm could make web a better place.
The study, funded by Google, looked at the behaviour of internet trolls over time to see what eventually resulted in them being banned.
Users who ended up being permanently banned from sites demonstrated a very clear set of behaviours and characteristics. From the get-go, the quality of their posts was far worse than those by other users, and continued to degrade over time. As well being «harder to understand according to standard readability metrics», posts written by trolls tended to be more likely to contain «language that may stir conflict», including negative words and profanities.
