Towards Effective Counter-Responses: Aligning Human Preferences with Strategies to Combat Online Trolling

Huije Lee, Hoyun Song, Jisu Shin, Sukmin Cho, SeungYoon Han, Jong C. Park


Abstract
Trolling in online communities typically involves disruptive behaviors such as provoking anger and manipulating discussions, leading to a polarized atmosphere and emotional distress. Robust moderation is essential for mitigating these negative impacts and maintaining a healthy and constructive community atmosphere. However, effectively addressing trolls is difficult because their behaviors vary widely and require different response strategies (RSs) to counter them. This diversity makes it challenging to choose an appropriate RS for each specific situation.To address this challenge, our research investigates whether humans have preferred strategies tailored to different types of trolling behaviors.Our findings reveal a correlation between the types of trolling encountered and the preferred RS. In this paper, we introduce a methodology for generating counter-responses to trolls by recommending appropriate RSs, supported by a dataset aligning these strategies with human preferences across various troll contexts. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach guides constructive discussion and reduces the negative effects of trolls, thereby enhancing the online community environment.
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2024.findings-emnlp.683
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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11670–11686
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.683
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.683
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Huije Lee, Hoyun Song, Jisu Shin, Sukmin Cho, SeungYoon Han, and Jong C. Park. 2024. Towards Effective Counter-Responses: Aligning Human Preferences with Strategies to Combat Online Trolling. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 11670–11686, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Effective Counter-Responses: Aligning Human Preferences with Strategies to Combat Online Trolling (Lee et al., Findings 2024)
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