Flaming drives online social networks

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.
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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."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19821-flaming-drives-online-socia…

( anr | 2010. 12. 07., k – 19:11 )

Ennek is az M$ az oka!
:)

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Live free, or I f'ing kill you.

( numen v | 2010. 12. 07., k – 19:32 )

Trey biztos évek óta tudja, és jó kis summát fizet a trolljainak :P

int getRandomNumber() { // ←ez itt már az aláírásom
	return 4;//szabályos kockadobással választva.
}		//garantáltan véletlenszerű. xkcd

"Biztos lehetsz benne, hogy olyan jó pénzkereseti forrást, mint egy főoldali flame nem szalasztok el csak úgy ;)"
-trey, http://hup.hu/node/74608#comment-825032

"Aki ezt elhiszi, illetve komolyan gondolja, az kötözni való bolond."
-trey, http://hup.hu/node/90633#comment-1080908

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To celebrate the Beatles' arrival on iTunes in 2010, I'm listening to their MP3s I downloaded from Napster in 2001.