From: Massimiliano Mirra - bard <mmirra@...>
Date: 2003-08-21T07:11:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Trollassassin

Ryan Pavlik <rpav@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>> 2. Could possibly add a troll-rating value as a header...
>> then each client could select a threshold.
>> 3. Trollhood is in the eye of the beholder. We don't all
>> always agree.
>
> Both of these together and we have a solution, perhaps.  

There are linguistic patterns that show up with some regularity:
mismatching (consistently, *consistently* disagreeing), question to
answer ratio (IOW, questions that misteriously disappear from the
quoting in the troll's replies), repeated teacher mode (``recognize
that...'', ``you should...'').  And of course contradictions, but
those happen on a larger span and are harder to track.

Have a look at the `corpus' I posted (just before reading Dave's
shout, eek, he'll hate me now :-\), there were patterns.  I've been
meaning to get into language analysis for a while, maybe it's
time. ;-) And maybe it might be a project for LotY?  :-)

Massimiliano