18-04-2015 12:00 via techradar.com

Trollbusters: This algorithm can predict if you're going to get banned

The way commenters write can be used to detect if they'll end up getting banned, according to US researchers working on troll-busting algorithms.A team from Cornell and Stanford Universities scanned the comment threads on three news sites - CNN, Breitbart and IGN - over the course of a year and a half. That totalled up to 35 million comments, sent by almost two million users. 50,000 of those users went on to be banned from the sites.The researchers found that those banned users wrote in a differ
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