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To understand how a person’s mood and discussion’s context (i.e., prior troll posts) affected the quality of a discussion, we conducted an experiment that varied (a) how difficult a quiz, given prior to participation in the discussion, was, as well as (b) whether the initial posts in a discussion were troll posts or not.
