Indeed, the idea is that a "controversial" comment can evoke both disagreement and support, while a trollish comment would just result in downvoting.
OTOH, some particularly clever trolls are of course intended to provoke division of an intellectually unproductive sort. Not sure if machine learning could identify that...though features computed from the commenter's past history could be informative.
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I hope you would reward controversy rather than punish it? I don't come to HN to read happythoughts.
Indeed, the idea is that a "controversial" comment can evoke both disagreement and support, while a trollish comment would just result in downvoting.
OTOH, some particularly clever trolls are of course intended to provoke division of an intellectually unproductive sort. Not sure if machine learning could identify that...though features computed from the commenter's past history could be informative.