The links in the following work for me.
Bunbury’s Public Service Announcement 2
The Bunbury Guide to Spotting Community Disruptors is constantly evolving.
This is a continuation of the earlier Public Service Announcement thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3321127-public-service-announcement
If and when you see threads plopped into FWR, especially a curious repeat of well worn topics, maybe check for poster history before engaging.
There are a number of posts/posters/threads that are reproduced on Twitter or Facebook to foment controversy using screen shots & flagging to either MNHQ to have threads or posters deleted. Sometimes, it’s used to approach commissioning editors with ideas for articles. It’s a tiresome tactic that we’ve had several community disruptor posters who themselves post the comments that they then highlight elsewhere as purported evidence of racism, religious intolerance, anti-men sentiments, or transphobia.
The best research and advice is not to engage with community disruptors and trolls.
Quoting from the Cornell & Stanford paper I linked above:
While most users tend to be civil, others may engage in antisocial behavior, negatively affecting other users and harming the community. Such undesired behavior, which includes trolling, flaming, bullying, and harassment, is exacerbated by the fact that people tend to be less inhibited in their online interactions (Suler 2004).
[We are addressing] several questions about antisocial behavior: First, are there users that only become antisocial later in their community life, or is deviant behavior innate? Second, does a community’s reaction to users’ anti- social behavior help them improve, or does it instead cause them to become more antisocial? Last, can antisocial users be effectively identified early on?
I'm using this paper as a lens to view the posts from users - particularly the researchers' discussion of the work they did to predict FBUs (Future Banned Users).
In fact, we only need to observe 5 to 10 user’s posts before a classifier is able to make a reliable prediction. Further, cross- domain classification performance remains high, suggesting that the features indicative of antisocial behavior that we discover are not community-specific.
Just gone back to take a look at the earliest Bunbury PSA threads - it's quite emotional. Various bits of research and links in the opening posts and that's probably the first time Fermats posted her 'how to handle a derailer' advice.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3438714-Bunbury-s-Public-Service-Announcement-2