Erm, no, this would be like imprisoning black people
because you think they are more likely to commit
crimes anyway.
BTW, does anyone want to have a crack at why Leo
Trollstoy was blocked?
Mark
--- Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
On Sunday 13 June 2004 21:19, Mark Richards wrote:
Well, assuming you have access to more
information
than I do, because what has been published is
precious
flimsy, I'm prepared to take your word for it
on
JRRT,
but what about LT? I see no connection in edits.
In this and future cases, would this formula be
acceptable as an evidence?
Wikipedia has n users which have "Troll" in their
username, and exists for
time t.
Therefore, on average, user with "Troll" in its
username is created every t/n.
If an user with "Troll" in it username is created
let the T be the time
between its creation and banning of the last user
with "Troll" in its
username.
Then, p=((t/n)/2)/T represents probability that the
user is previous user.
If the probability is higher then some value (say
10), ban the user. There's
only 10/p chance that you are wrong.
(I am not a statistician but surely someone can
check and improve this.)
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