a troll is someone who posts inflammatory extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion
Let’s see:
inflammatory: check
extraneous: sometimes, not in this case
off-topic: not exactly
intent to provoke/disrupt: not in my estimation
so, maybe 25-30% trollness.
Safely assume bad faith.
I never get this impression from his posts. They seem honest (if sometimes misguided) not malicious to me.
Intent makes a difference for me. private_messaging seems to want to get his point across (not counting an occasional rant), without regard to the way his comments come across. I did not detect any intent of riling people up for its own sake.
private_messaging is a troll. Safely assume bad faith.
Wikipedia:
Let’s see:
inflammatory: check
extraneous: sometimes, not in this case
off-topic: not exactly
intent to provoke/disrupt: not in my estimation
so, maybe 25-30% trollness.
I never get this impression from his posts. They seem honest (if sometimes misguided) not malicious to me.
Can you say more about how you distinguish messages intended to provoke emotional response from those that are merely inflammatory?
Intent makes a difference for me. private_messaging seems to want to get his point across (not counting an occasional rant), without regard to the way his comments come across. I did not detect any intent of riling people up for its own sake.
(nods) That’s fair. Thanks for the clarification.
Hmm so you safely assume that I made up a requirement that the observed data be at the start of the string that is output?