[D] Modeling online discourse escalation as a state machine (dataset + labeling approach)

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Hi, I’ve been working on a framework to model how online discussions escalate into conflict, and I’m exploring whether it can be framed as a classification / sequence modeling problem. The core idea is to treat discourse as a state machine with observable transitions. States (proposed) Neutral (information exchange) Disagreement Identity Activation Personalization Ad Hominem Dogpile (multi-user targeting, non-recoverable) Each comment can be labeled as a local state, while threads also have a...