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.
12-07-2010, 22:53
Gregoshi
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
I love this! Great info! :2thumbsup:
12-07-2010, 22:58
Tellos Athenaios
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
Call me biased, but I would expect the least vigorous people to be into “aging rock stars”... :shrug:
12-07-2010, 23:08
drone
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
I wonder how much money they spent to determine that successful trolls were, in fact, successful?
12-07-2010, 23:12
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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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.
What kvatch that study. Never noticed anything of the kind. Least of all in our very own Backroom.
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Hitler
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....
12-07-2010, 23:13
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Gregoshi
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:
12-07-2010, 23:15
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by drone
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
12-07-2010, 23:31
Sasaki Kojiro
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
hmm, if you sort the backroom threads by number of replies, the biggest single subject thread is "joyous tidings from israel". Study disproved.
meh, this is all too positive for me. Louis, start another hate thread please.
12-08-2010, 00:41
Hax
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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.
12-08-2010, 01:00
Rhyfelwyr
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
IIRC my longest discussions have been the most respectful ones.
12-08-2010, 09:33
Furunculus
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
the eu thread would certainly argue in favour of this conclusion, even if all the hot air was generated by perceived slight.
12-08-2010, 11:10
Andres
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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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.
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.
It's because of people like you that guns should be forbidden.
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Originally Posted by TinCow
Also, you are Hitler.
And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.
12-08-2010, 11:42
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Andres
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:
12-08-2010, 12:48
Seamus Fermanagh
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Andres
...And you're a Catholic who is against abortion.
Doctrinally, that's redundant.
12-08-2010, 17:15
Strike For The South
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by alh_p
meh, this is all too positive for me. Louis, start another hate thread please.
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.
Secert muslim. girly man
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Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr
IIRC my longest discussions have been the most respectful ones.
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.
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.
You're blonde and like to whine in the frontroom
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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
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
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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
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
12-09-2010, 01:13
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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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
:smitten:
So very spot on! :beam:
12-09-2010, 02:38
Gregoshi
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
:smitten:
So very spot on! :beam:
There goes the thread...and, get a room, guys. :laugh4:
12-09-2010, 03:27
Askthepizzaguy
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
There. Now you're back on topic. :clown:
12-09-2010, 03:33
Proletariat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
This thread had nothing to do with Poles until you vulgarly mocked an entire nations posting style. Thanks alot ATPG
:no:
12-09-2010, 03:34
Askthepizzaguy
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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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
:no:
Go back in Mongolia Tree! I know how spell it. Dont' lecture now.
:laugh4:
12-09-2010, 03:41
Don Corleone
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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.
12-09-2010, 03:46
Yoyoma1910
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
This reminds me of that time I saw Hawkwind at Dour Fest.
12-09-2010, 03:50
Shibumi
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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*
12-09-2010, 04:10
Yoyoma1910
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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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*
Why are you hating on people stating the obvious?
Hater.
12-09-2010, 09:06
Banquo's Ghost
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
: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.
i wonder what the formula is for happiness declining in a thread XD
12-09-2010, 18:50
Hax
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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.
12-09-2010, 18:54
Strike For The South
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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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.
I don't want more warning points
Banquo has consistently turned down my flirtations :(
12-09-2010, 18:58
ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
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!!!!!!!!!!
12-11-2010, 06:59
Yoyoma1910
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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.
12-11-2010, 08:16
Askthepizzaguy
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
E) War on Christmas. I've got my assault rifle and I'm ready to kick some Santa.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Bearded bastard's been stingy with the toys recently.
12-11-2010, 16:10
Kagemusha
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy
E) War on Christmas. I've got my assault rifle and I'm ready to kick some Santa.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
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!
12-11-2010, 17:27
Askthepizzaguy
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Kagemusha
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.
12-12-2010, 00:50
Moros
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
Ths is why I hate the backroom.
12-12-2010, 01:06
Hosakawa Tito
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
Quote:
Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy
E) War on Christmas. I've got my assault rifle and I'm ready to kick some Santa.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Bearded bastard's been stingy with the toys recently.
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"...
12-13-2010, 19:22
Askthepizzaguy
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Quote:
Originally Posted by 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"...
I am NOT a wiener!
:stare:
12-13-2010, 20:57
drone
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
George Bush will be remembered as one of the greatest Presidents ever.
Indeed. 41 is the most underrated President of my lifetime. :yes:
12-13-2010, 22:50
Devastatin Dave
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by drone
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?
12-13-2010, 22:53
Louis VI the Fat
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
Then again, if he was born before 1988 there's some pretty stiff competition for 'most overrated president ever'....
12-13-2010, 22:58
Devastatin Dave
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
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...
12-13-2010, 23:22
drone
Re: Hate Makes The Backroom Great
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Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
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.
