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The author makes a great point, however, about the ability to link those two together. I'm sure you'd end up with a lot of false positives from IRC as even if i
by enjo 16y ago
The author makes a great point, however, about the ability to link those two together. I'm sure you'd end up with a lot of false positives from IRC as even if it's attributed (ircuser: TWSS!) the flow of IRC conversations is such that it's not always the last thing ircuser said that is being replied to (because of network lag and just general reply lag in IRC).
Although now that I think about it... twitter probably often suffers from the exact same issue, although somewhat mitigated as people often include the original tweet in their reply.
- DasIch 16y agoUnless I'm missing something, this only occurs if someone sends two messages to someone and the receiving user responds to the first message but gets the second message before sending his. Using average read/write times for a message - taking its length into account - it should be fairly easy to check if someone could have read and written a response to a message. Assuming it is a response if he could have written one in time should be fairly accurate. You could probably even cheat and use a constant time while still getting good results.