Hate Makes The Backroom Great

[TinCow]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19821-flaming-drives-online-social-networks.html


Want more comments on your blog posts? A higher follower tally on Twitter? Then be prepared to resort to flaming to anger and upset people. That's the conclusion of a study into the role emotions play in online interaction.

A group of Slovenian and British researchers used something called "sentiment analysis" to identify emotional content in posts left on the BBC's online discussion forums and the link-sharing website digg.com.

The team's algorithms look for features such as keywords, emoticons, and subtle linguistic markers such as misspellings, and use the results to calculate a "happiness score" for each post.

They have found that long conversation threads are overwhelmingly more emotionally negative than short ones, with happiness scores decreasing logarithmically with the number of messages. What's more, long conversations almost always start with negative comments.

"If you want a long chat, don't start by saying 'I love this!', at least not online," says Mike Thelwall, head of the Statistical Cybermetrics research group in Wolverhampton, UK.

The researchers also noticed that avalanches of negative emotion – floods of messages with low happiness scores, spurred by a single post – produce self-organised behaviour amongst users.

Negative emotions accelerate the number of messages sent by users, in turn generating social groups from nowhere, says Thelwall. A single post can quickly generate a community of feeling if it is provocative enough.

In fact, this is all typically human behaviour. "There is evidence that group cohesiveness may be related to negative feelings about others," agrees Tom Buchanan, a psychologist at the University of Westminster in London. "Members of an online community might unite around a perceived attack on them or some aspect of their identity."

Thankfully, the researchers have some advice for those that would rather steer clear of bad feeling online. "We've seen that the least vigorous discussions tend to be about ageing rock stars," says Thelwall.

Personally, I think this is a stupid study by stupid people and the conclusions it reaches are all wrong. I hate them and want them to die. I also hate you, and I want you to die, but that's a separate issue. Also, you are Hitler.

[Gregoshi]

I love this! Great info! :2thumbsup:

[Tellos Athenaios]

Call me biased, but I would expect the least vigorous people to be into “aging rock stars”... :shrug:

[drone]

I wonder how much money they spent to determine that successful trolls were, in fact, successful?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Personally, I think this is a stupid study by stupid people and the conclusions it reaches are all wrong.What kvatch that study. Never noticed anything of the kind. Least of all in our very own Backroom.



HitlerI have noticed that the Jews are the greatest fascists on the planet. Besides Hitler was Jewish himself.

Not to be mean or derogatory or anything, I mean, some of my best friends are fascists....

[Louis VI the Fat]

I love this! Great info! :2thumbsup:What's with this trolling?

Felt the need for sarcastic remarks? Couldn't control yourself? Wanted to ruin another discussion? :no:

[Louis VI the Fat]

I wonder how much money they spent to determine that successful trolls were, in fact, successful?Ah yes well but by calling trolls succesful you have just fed the trolls well done the first rule of the internet is to not feed the trolls apparantly you dobn't know this to think they made you a mod jesus christ

[Sasaki Kojiro]

hmm, if you sort the backroom threads by number of replies, the biggest single subject thread is "joyous tidings from israel". Study disproved.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Oh hai guyz....http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbc28dKuhQ1qav6f6.png

[al Roumi]

meh, this is all too positive for me. Louis, start another hate thread please.

[Hax]

So what exactly are we trying to do here? Disprove this study?

In any case, while I may not agree with you all the time, I think you're all pretty smart and nice enough guys. Thank you.

[Rhyfelwyr]

IIRC my longest discussions have been the most respectful ones.

[Furunculus]

the eu thread would certainly argue in favour of this conclusion, even if all the hot air was generated by perceived slight.

[Andres]

Personally, I think this is a stupid study by stupid people and the conclusions it reaches are all wrong.

It's probably funded by Palestinian terrorists who want to overthrow their Israelian oppressors.


I hate them and want them to die. I also hate you, and I want you to die, but that's a separate issue.

It's because of people like you that guns should be forbidden.


Also, you are Hitler.

And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.

[Louis VI the Fat]

It's because of people like you that guns should be forbidden.

[...]

And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.Ah, I see...

So it is okay to kill a white baby, but your heart start to bleed when a black criminal is killed, who, as a criminal sat about killing others! Such blatant hypocrisy is only to be expected from the lefties.

Nice anti-Catholic slur btw. :no:

[Seamus Fermanagh]

...And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.

Doctrinally, that's redundant.

[Strike For The South]

meh, this is all too positive for me. Louis, start another hate thread please.

Your opinions are cookie cutter euro social welfare



So what exactly are we trying to do here? Disprove this study?

In any case, while I may not agree with you all the time, I think you're all pretty smart and nice enough guys. Thank you.

Secert muslim. girly man


IIRC my longest discussions have been the most respectful ones.

backwards religous zealot


the eu thread would certainly argue in favour of this conclusion, even if all the hot air was generated by perceived slight.

Youre english which means you have bad teeth and bad humor to go along with that rediculos name you piciked for yourself


It's probably funded by Palestinian terrorists who want to overthrow their Israelian oppressors.



It's because of people like you that guns should be forbidden.



And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.

You're blonde and like to whine in the frontroom


Doctrinally, that's redundant.

If you like Ireland so much why don't you marry it? You're also from NJ, the hellhole of America



Ah, I see...

So it is okay to kill a white baby, but your heart start to bleed when a black criminal is killed, who, as a criminal sat about killing others! Such blatant hypocrisy is only to be expected from the lefties.

Nice anti-Catholic slur btw



Either heterosexual with homo erotic tendencies or homosexual with hetero tendencies, either way you're not getting laid.

Your opinions are absolute bull, yet you have the great gift of being a bull artist so you're able to wrap up the horse manure you call an opinion in so much fluff that most people on here think you have some semblance of intellgence

[Louis VI the Fat]

Either heterosexual with homo erotic tendencies or homosexual with hetero tendencies, either way you're not getting laid.

Your opinions are absolute bull, yet you have the great gift of being a bull artist so you're able to wrap up the horse manure you call an opinion in so much fluff that most people on here think you have some semblance of intellgence:smitten:


So very spot on! :beam:

[Gregoshi]

:smitten:


So very spot on! :beam:
There goes the thread...and, get a room, guys. :laugh4:

[Askthepizzaguy]

You, over there, reading this thread! All of you listen to mee

You cannot belong here! I find your mother's face capable of scaring baby ducks! On Tuesdays, you tell war stories that never happened to a nude photographer. Is your tiny brain comprehendifying this now??? Your children have the look of an inbred pachyderm. When I see them, it makes my stomach churn grumpily. When you were born, doctor call police, and they come shoot you with mace. You ugly! Don't come around back room now! Go back to playing Halo, redneck hillbilly. When you all done squeezing out thirteen child, call Kevorkian and have him solve your issue. No slit wrist, make me have to clean up. You ugly face... butt farty fart fart fart.

~:mad ~:mad ~:mad YOU UNDERSTAND, OK??? BRAIN IN NOGGIN??? ~:mad

I hate all of you. ~:mad



:furious3:


There. Now you're back on topic. :clown:

[Proletariat]

This thread had nothing to do with Poles until you vulgarly mocked an entire nations posting style. Thanks alot ATPG
:no:

[Askthepizzaguy]

This thread had nothing to do with Poles until you vulgarly mocked an entire nations posting style. Thanks alot ATPG
:no:

Go back in Mongolia Tree! I know how spell it. Dont' lecture now.

:laugh4:

[Don Corleone]

If anger, vitriol and a constant state of enraged diatribe boots the "success" of a forum or blog, Tosa should have put Idaho, Jag, & Gawain on his payroll... and he should have gotten blackmail material on good ole' Soly & his "ban-stick" as a hedge against him ever leaving as a moderator.

We do our best to get our blood-pressure up, but nothing compares to the good old days...I swear I expected to log in one day and find out one of our more agitated members had tracked down another and gotten into it in the street.

P.S. Hi Prole, hi ATPG. Good to see you guys, and merry Christmas.

[Yoyoma1910]

This reminds me of that time I saw Hawkwind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUQJjaXi-A&feature=related) at Dour Fest.

[Shibumi]

I don't see what is new about this study?

I thought this had been well known for years.. And not just limited to the internet..


so *shrugs*

[Yoyoma1910]

I don't see what is new about this study?

I thought this had been well known for years.. And not just limited to the internet..


so *shrugs*

Why are you hating on people stating the obvious?




Hater.

[Banquo's Ghost]

:smitten:


So very spot on! :beam:

Really. :no:

This is so below the standard of the olden days. What ever happened to great French taunting? Now all we get is French letters.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY

[The Stranger]

i wonder what the formula is for happiness declining in a thread XD

[Hax]

It's marvelous to see how we're trying our very best to be offensive, but compared to random YouTube comments...

No, I don't think so.

[Strike For The South]

It's marvelous to see how we're trying our very best to be offensive, but compared to random YouTube comments...

No, I don't think so.

I don't want more warning points

Banquo has consistently turned down my flirtations :(

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

What's with this trolling?

Felt the need for sarcastic remarks? Couldn't control yourself? Wanted to ruin another discussion? :no:



But hate increases the post Louis!!!!!!!!!!

[Yoyoma1910]

Do you think this thread has become silent because:
A) Nobody really hates the hate.
B) I brought up aging rock stars in post #24.
C) Cheese.
D) Everyone's busy watching reruns of Jersey Shore.

[Askthepizzaguy]

E) War on Christmas. I've got my assault rifle and I'm ready to kick some Santa.


Bearded bastard's been stingy with the toys recently.

[Kagemusha]

E) War on Christmas. I've got my assault rifle and I'm ready to kick some Santa.


Bearded bastard's been stingy with the toys recently.

So you are attacking our Santa? Stay clear of our rare export.Or you will face a steamy death from us ever more stubid inbreds!

[Askthepizzaguy]

So you are attacking our Santa? Stay clear of our rare export.Or you will face a steamy death from us ever more stubid inbreds!

I hate inbreds. Darn it all to heck! That's it, you're on my naughty list.

[Moros]

Ths is why I hate the backroom.

[Hosakawa Tito]

E) War on Christmas. I've got my assault rifle and I'm ready to kick some Santa.


Bearded bastard's been stingy with the toys recently.

Coal in your stocking? It's Payback time.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/hoppy84/santa-shot.jpg

[Kagemusha]

There is no point resisting.Just surrender to the dark side:

https://img576.imageshack.us/img576/2961/112307santa.jpg

[Devastatin Dave]

Jesus died for your sins. Isreal belongs to the Jews. There is no such things as a Palestinian. George Bush will be remembered as one of the greatest Presidents ever. Barak Obama is a muslim Kenyan who cannot produce his birth certificate or school transcripts. They did find WMDs in Iraq. Europe will be under Sharia law within the next 25 years. Hitler's political ideaology is more aligned with that of todays left. There is no global warming and climate change is just a vehicle to use to redistrubate the wealth. Blacks do commit more crimes than whites. Illegal immagration is bad for any country. The EU is failing. Al Gore is the greatest con artist of all times. JFK was a failure and the only thing that saved his legacy was a bullet through his skull. MLK and Rosa Parks were communists. John Kerry and Max Cleland got his purple hearts from self inflicted wounds. Elizabeth Edwards used her cancer to benifit herself and her family including her cheating husband. Hillary Clinton "stood by her man" only for political gain. The American Indians died because of evolutionary law. Blacks were sold into slavery by their African leaders and many American black owned slaves. Abraham Lincoln was homosexual. Michelle Obama isn't beautiful, she looks like a missing link. The United States is still the greatest country in the world. Male homosexual sex is dangerous and is a strain on the wellness of this world. lesbian sex is hot though. Dogs are better than cats. American football is much better than soccer. The World cup is boring. Baseball is better than cricket. Jimmy Carter was the worst president but Obama is doing his bext to take his title. White liberal guilt and their low expectations of "minorities" fuels more racism than the KKK. Affirmative action is not good for any country. Progressive tax plans only hurt the economy and hurt the poor worst of all. Islam is evil. Communism and socialism has led to the death and misery of more people than all the religions combined. Evolution is still a theory.
Enjoy the "hate"...

[Askthepizzaguy]

Jesus died for your sins. Isreal belongs to the Jews. There is no such things as a Palestinian. George Bush will be remembered as one of the greatest Presidents ever. Barak Obama is a muslim Kenyan who cannot produce his birth certificate or school transcripts. They did find WMDs in Iraq. Europe will be under Sharia law within the next 25 years. Hitler's political ideaology is more aligned with that of todays left. There is no global warming and climate change is just a vehicle to use to redistrubate the wealth. Blacks do commit more crimes than whites. Illegal immagration is bad for any country. The EU is failing. Al Gore is the greatest con artist of all times. JFK was a failure and the only thing that saved his legacy was a bullet through his skull. MLK and Rosa Parks were communists. John Kerry and Max Cleland got his purple hearts from self inflicted wounds. Elizabeth Edwards used her cancer to benifit herself and her family including her cheating husband. Hillary Clinton "stood by her man" only for political gain. The American Indians died because of evolutionary law. Blacks were sold into slavery by their African leaders and many American black owned slaves. Abraham Lincoln was homosexual. Michelle Obama isn't beautiful, she looks like a missing link. The United States is still the greatest country in the world. Male homosexual sex is dangerous and is a strain on the wellness of this world. lesbian sex is hot though. Dogs are better than cats. American football is much better than soccer. The World cup is boring. Baseball is better than cricket. Jimmy Carter was the worst president but Obama is doing his bext to take his title. White liberal guilt and their low expectations of "minorities" fuels more racism than the KKK. Affirmative action is not good for any country. Progressive tax plans only hurt the economy and hurt the poor worst of all. Islam is evil. Communism and socialism has led to the death and misery of more people than all the religions combined. Evolution is still a theory.
Enjoy the "hate"...

I am NOT a wiener!

:stare:

[drone]

George Bush will be remembered as one of the greatest Presidents ever.
Indeed. 41 is the most underrated President of my lifetime. :yes:

[Devastatin Dave]

Indeed. 41 is the most underrated President of my lifetime. :yes:



When you think about it Drone, there isn't much competition in your life time for the "most underrated" title. Kind of sad isn't it?

[Louis VI the Fat]

Then again, if he was born before 1988 there's some pretty stiff competition for 'most overrated president ever'....

[Devastatin Dave]

Then again, if he was born before 1988 there's some pretty stiff competition for 'most overrated president ever'....

Come on, actors that suffer with alzeimers with wives that use astrology to make policy are awesome Presidents.... God help us...

[drone]

When you think about it Drone, there isn't much competition in your life time for the "most underrated" title. Kind of sad isn't it?
Very much so. My lifetime goes back to Nixon, and 41 is the only one I can remember that did what was best for the country, re-election chances be damned. True courage.

And any of you GB haters can go pound sand!