mikiem2
Moderator
blog[.]google/topics/machine-learning/when-computers-learn-swear-using-machine-learning-better-online-conversations/
Today, Google and Jigsaw are launching Perspective, an early-stage technology that uses machine learning to help identify toxic comments. Through an API, publishers—including members of the Digital News Initiative—and platforms can access this technology and use it for their sites.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
That will be brilliant. Maybe they will eventually be able to incorporate code that will ban repeat offenders as well. About time something was done about trolls that generally spoil what otherwise would be a great community to visit.
I used to jointly run a clan site for a small America's Army clan about 12 years ago. We had a brilliant community until we joined with another slightly larger clan. Some of the guys from the other clan abused our server, i.e. let in none vetted friends of theirs who were not part of either clan and we found we couldn't even access our own server at times because the other clans friends were filling up the server slots. When we complained we ended up getting trolls posting inappropriate comments on our clans web site. It got to a point we separated from the other clan, and changed the server password to stop them using the server. All was well until they started spamming our web site with all sorts of filth. We had to close down the site and restart with a new web site, but the extra work put so much strain on me and a good friend who apart from having young families and both of us worked full time, we jointly ran the clan and paid for the server etc; so we appealed to the rest of the clan to help out, but none was forthcoming, so we let the server lapse and just left the web site to itself. It was a shame because for a couple of years we had a brilliant community, playing some excellent games online such as America's Army, one of the early Men of Honor games (the one based on the Japanese conflict) plus two of the Vietnam war games, Battlefield Vietnam and Men of Valor and just having a good laugh via Team Speak.
We never used to get such comments here. Still can't understand the mentality of such people.
mikiem2
Moderator
We never used to get such comments here. Still can't understand the mentality of such people.
Read an interesting article yesterday that I think might appeal to you also, though I'm a bit hesitant, because while it's mostly science-based, there are a few comments, mostly scattered towards the end, that some people might take political offense at. Those comments aren't drastic or nasty, but more asides, but it doesn't always take much to upset some folks nowadays. I can only urge anyone reading it to focus on the science part. I do think it's a good read re: psychology & behavior.
It's actually a review of 3 books, two written by scientists and one by a psychologist, that illustrate & explain some of the ways that our brains & psychology work. And it **might** help explain, if just a little, why some people behave the way that they do, for example trolls.
Based on the article, *My understanding*, which as always could be wrong, is that the trolls do not understand, nor do they want to learn &/or understand the consequences of their behavior, so to them there's no reason not to be a troll. At the same time they actually get a physical rush by being part of a group of like-minded people, in your example people who disliked &/or despised your clan. In real life I suspect many trolls are not as offensive, because there they see more of the consequences of their behavior, but online, they don't see any downsides whatsoever, but only the rush from belonging.
newyorker[.]com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
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