article_snippet.sent: Comments sections and social networks across the web are littered with antisocial users who repeatedly abuse and provoke people to get a reaction.
article_snippet.sent: The research was carried out by PhD students from Stanford and Cornell University, led by Justin Chang, in a paper called Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities.
article_snippet.sent: Understanding how antisocial users may steer individual discussions can help us better quantify antisocial users influence on other users,' concluded the researchers. '
article_snippet.sent: One could also investigate the effects of having multiple antisocial users participate in a discussion.'
article_snippet.sent: But multiple antisocial users recognised the algorithm's accuracy rate
article_snippet.sent: meant that one in five antisocial users are undetected and further works needs to be done to boost this rate and work out effective ways of dealing with the trolls.
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers built an algorithm that scans posts for signs of antisocial behaviour .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Study shows an algorithm that scans posts for signs of antisocial behaviour can identify potential trolls in 80% of cases .