Something’s Brewing!Early Prediction of Controversy-causing Posts from Discussion Features
Table 3: Post-time only results: the effect of incorporating timing and author identity features.
['[EMPTY]', 'AM', 'AW', 'FT', 'LT', 'PF', 'RL']
While incorporating TIME features on top of TEXT results in consistent improvements across all communities, incorporating author features on top of TIME+TEXT does not. We adopt our highest performing models, TEXT+TIME, as a strong post-time baseline.