Update 01/12/15: Bitcointalk health status - 33% Infection

Sapereaude

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Results 05/10/15 - Check lower for latest results

Top 25 posters on bitcointalk
toknormal 133
qwizzie 123
Mangled Blue 122
TanteStefana2 73
tungfa 70
TaoOfSaatoshi 67
smoothie 59
Solarminer 50
Sub-Ether 49
eduffield 42
GhostPlayer 38
AdamWhite 35
kointrend 34
Minotaur26 32
splawik21 31
iCEBREAKER 28
Lukas_Jackson 28
Lebubar 27
RenegadeMan 27
Jestah 24
patrolman 24
ddink7 23
illodin 19
sangoku 19

Known Trolls
smoothie 59
AdamWhite 35
iCEBREAKER 28 (but only posted on 3 days out of 21)

Troll Count 122
Top 25 Posters Total 1177
Total Posts 1787



Top 25 posts Infection Rate 9.64%
Total thread infection Rate 6.83%

So while I rather not post on bitcointalk any more, I still visit it often because you lot are always there and it seems to be more and more infected lately. So I crawled the last three weeks and calculated what percentage of total posts are obvious trolls and divide this by total posts. So we now are officially at 6.83% infections rate.
 
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Sapereaude said:
Top 25 posters on bitcointalk
toknormal 133
qwizzie 123
Mangled Blue 122
TanteStefana2 73
tungfa 70
TaoOfSaatoshi 67
smoothie 59
Solarminer 50
Sub-Ether 49
eduffield 42
GhostPlayer 38
AdamWhite 35
kointrend 34
Minotaur26 32
splawik21 31
iCEBREAKER 28
Lukas_Jackson 28
Lebubar 27
RenegadeMan 27
Jestah 24
patrolman 24
ddink7 23
illodin 19
sangoku 19

Known Trolls
smoothie 59
AdamWhite 35
iCEBREAKER 28 (but only posted on 3 days out of 21)

Troll Count 122
Top 25 Posters Total 1177
Total Posts 1787



Top 25 posts Infection Rate 9.64%
Total thread infection Rate 6.83%

So while I rather not post on bitcointalk any more, I still visit it often because you lot are always there and it seems to be more and more infected lately. So I crawled the last three weeks and calculated what percentage of total posts are obvious trolls and divide this by total posts. So we now are officially at 6.83% infections rate.
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Yay, I made the list! (ddink7)
 
Sapereaude said:
However I also checked how many time the trolls were quoted and got theses results.

smoothie 37
iCEBREAKER 32
AdamWhite 31
TheDasher 8
smooth 4

So using this data

Total Posts 2017
Top 25 posters 1287
Troll Posts 109
Quoted Trolls 112
Infection Rate 0.1095

So we can see that quoting the trolls doubles their effectiveness. I could drill down to who exactly is quoting them, but I'm not trying to single people out. Also mymother seems to have deleted all his posts so these number should be higher.

So the conclusion is that 80-85% of the thread is useful just don't quote the trolls. They rely on people quoting them and GIANT WALLS of test to he heard, perhaps just use one of these images?

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=internet trolls&rlz=1C1ASUT_enAU502AU502&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIrqSBqu7jyAIVItumCh0JNwwR&biw=1225&bih=1060&dpr=0.9
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It doubles their presence, it doesn't double their effectiveness. Those are not the same thing.

When I was slaughtering trolls, and Xcoin, I mean Darkcoin, I mean whatever, was still complete crap, it was pushing $12. Debunking them, with a quote, does work.

And having the sack to man the harpoons, put my money where my mouth is, certainly didn't hurt.
 
Fair enough it doubles their exposure then and as much as I enjoyed your harpooning the trolls, aren't those same trolls still squatting over the thread?

Edit- Realized crawler failed me redid the numbers below
 
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Okay here are the numbers 28/10/15

Top 25 Posters
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Troll Posts 426
Trolls Quoted 364
Troll Exposure 790
Top 25 Posts 2913
Total Posts 4799


Infected Posts 0.088
Infected Exposure 0.164

Troll Posts Posted Quoted
iCEBREAKER 102 111
AdamWhite 87 33
smoothie 81 65
YourMother 54 24
TheDasher 48 51
smooth 16 25
dnaleor 19 47
gusterdd 19 8
Total 426 364


So the infection rate has increased to 9% or is a third larger. Meaning roughly one in 8 posts will be troll or troll related and some trolls are more successful than others. Interesting note Smooth has been quoted more times than eduffield.
 
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Okay here are the numbers 28/10/15

Top 25 Posters
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Troll Posts 426
Trolls Quoted 364
Troll Exposure 790
Top 25 Posts 2913
Total Posts 4799


Infected Posts 0.088
Infected Exposure 0.164

Troll Posts Posted Quoted
iCEBREAKER 102 111
AdamWhite 87 33
smoothie 81 65
YourMother 54 24
TheDasher 48 51
smooth 16 25
dnaleor 19 47
gusterdd 19 8
Total 426 364


So the infection rate has increased to 9% or is a third larger. Meaning roughly one in 8 posts will be troll or troll related and some trolls are more successful than others. Interesting note Smooth has been quoted more times than eduffield.
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Nice graph. Ignoring the trolls and keeping the discussion amongst ourselves and other "respectful" posters is the way to go.

EDIT: mprep is taking a machete to the thread this evening. Over 30 pages gone!
 
Okay here are the numbers for the last month - 01/12/15

Top 25 Posters
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Troll Posts 371
Trolls Quoted 355
Trolls Exposure 726
Top 25 Posters total 1078
Total 2166

Infected Posts 17.12%
Infected Exposure 33.51%

This is worrying a third of the thread is trolls or people responding to trolls...

Trolls Posted Quoted
DrkLvr_ 93 68
iCEBREAKER 78 92
smoothie 62 51
arielbit 48 26
smooth 32 47
dnaleor 31 54
othe 11 11
g4q34g4qg47ww 7 6
TheDasher 2 6
YourMother 1 2
LucyLovesCrypto 1 1

Fascinatingly Trolls quoted people in 100% of thier posts, perhaps to make ti seem like they are being engaged or to induce a response?

Top 20 people trolls like to quote

User Times Quoted
toknormal 36
Wolf0 24
illodin 16
Props 13
TanteStefana2 12
reaktion 12
volyova 12
MasterMined710 11
ddink7 11
bigrcanada 10
AlexGR 8
ceti 8
DrkLvr_ 7
Otoh 6
TaoOfSaatoshi 6
aleix 6
oaxaca 6
qwizzie 6
Minotaur26 5
Solarminer 5
eduffield 5

This month's sockpuppet account = DrkLvr_ ( Previous winners being AdamWhite and TheDasher)
 
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I just found that out, no trolls all day!? I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight! It's like, I feel an earthquake is going to hit or something.
 
I think the reporting's had an effect, I've been reporting absolutely everything they've posted that looks like FUD (ie. practically everything) and I think a few others have been doing the same, not nice for the mods but it gives them a taste of what we've been suffering there and it's not us spamming posts. They seem to be having a crackdown at the mo so that could be helping, apparently the spambots have gone ballistic on BCT and they're on a deleting spree.
 
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