>> After collecting data, including from people who had engaged in trolling behaviour in the past, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil built an algorithm that predicts with

>> After collecting data, including from people who had engaged in trolling behaviour in the past, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil built an algorithm that predicts with 80 per cent accuracy when someone is about to become abusive online. This provides an opportunity to, for example, introduce a delay in how fast they can post their response. If people have to think twice before they write something, that improves the context of the exchange for everyone: you’re less likely to witness people misbehaving, and so less likely to misbehave yourself. There have been times where HN got super slow or started erroring randomly, but worked normally in a logged out browser. I assume this is what's happening. I'm also very glad for it because I know how I can get if there's no barrier between my annoyance and the post button. This has helped me be less annoyed and more self-aware in general.