Great idea. And very true that there isn't much research here. The bibliography I did for CFP2008 has links to a couple of great research papers by Susan Herr

Great idea. And very true that there isn't much research here. The bibliography I did for CFP2008 has links to a couple of great research papers by Susan Herring from about 10 years ago but there's not a lot since then -- http://cfp.wikia.com/wiki/Dealing_with_hate_speech%2C_flaming%2C_and_trolls http://cfp.wikia.com/wiki/Dealing_with_hate_speech%2C_flamin...