Hate Makes The Backroom Great

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-networks.html

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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.

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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.

I love this! Great info! :2thumbsup:

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

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

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Originally Posted by TinCow

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

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What kvatch that study. Never noticed anything of the kind. Least of all in our very own Backroom.

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Hitler

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I 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....

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Originally Posted by Gregoshi

I love this! Great info! :2thumbsup:

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What's with this trolling?

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

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Originally Posted by drone

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

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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

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

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

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

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.

IIRC my longest discussions have been the most respectful ones.

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

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Originally Posted by TinCow

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

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

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Originally Posted by TinCow

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

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

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Originally Posted by TinCow

Also, you are Hitler.

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And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.

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Originally Posted by Andres

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

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And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.

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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:

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Originally Posted by Andres

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

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Doctrinally, that's redundant.

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Originally Posted by alh_p

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

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Your opinions are cookie cutter euro social welfare

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Secert muslim. girly man

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Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr

IIRC my longest discussions have been the most respectful ones.

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backwards religous zealot

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Originally Posted by Furunculus

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

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

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Originally Posted by Andres

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.

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You're blonde and like to whine in the frontroom

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Doctrinally, that's redundant.

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

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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

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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

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

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

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So very spot on! :beam:

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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

:smitten:


So very spot on! :beam:

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There goes the thread...and, get a room, guys. :laugh4:

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



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

This thread had nothing to do with Poles until you vulgarly mocked an entire nations posting style. Thanks alot ATPG
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Originally Posted by Proletariat

This thread had nothing to do with Poles until you vulgarly mocked an entire nations posting style. Thanks alot ATPG
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Go back in Mongolia Tree! I know how spell it. Dont' lecture now.

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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.

This reminds me of that time I saw Hawkwind at Dour Fest.

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*

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Originally Posted by 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*

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Why are you hating on people stating the obvious?




Hater.

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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

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So very spot on! :beam:

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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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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I don't want more warning points

Banquo has consistently turned down my flirtations :(