Dealing with Intellectual Trolling
summary
Forty percent of internet‑using adults report harassment and a quarter of women 18–24 report sexual harassment while a quick Twitter poll shows 67% experiencing it more than once so the claim is scale not opinion. Practical tools include automated detection with machine learning and NLP, user flagging, gated membership and Discourse moderation, and a live Twitter classifier on GitHub plus proposals for troll bounty programs. Concrete rules and enforced codes of conduct plus the five‑to‑one positive to negative ratio determine whether communities stay usable.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Internet is a shared public resource
- 2:30Do you feel bad
- 2:52Online bully
- 3:16Intention
- 3:50Silence
- 4:25Challenges
- 5:22Poll Results
- 6:54Solutions
- 7:57Perspective
- 8:46Bounty programs
- 10:35Coral Project
- 11:34Ello
- 12:10MZ
- 13:26Feeding a troll
- 13:55PackCrafter
- 14:21Twitter Classifier
- 15:33Jeff Atwood
- 17:46Quick takeaways
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