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I'm dying to know if this turns out to be right, or not. I actually have a totally different list which is based on a different handling of punctuation. It suggests that the most likely person who also commented on that thread is zaveri.

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Im still convinced the lower case use of google, facebook etc. (which occured more than once in the comment) is important - especially as there is one Google at the start of a sentence - indicating it is intentional/common.

That's why I personally discounted many from your first list (plus the fact I know a few are native English speakers)

I am aghast that people would think I'm not a native English speaker. I hope I'm numbered in the "few." Disclaimer: sometimes Windows handwriting recognition makes a real hash of my post without my noticing.

This challenge is a bit flawed in that we have no way of knowing if the anonymous poster is willing to ever confirm that he/she made the post, isn't it? Not to state the obvious but it just seems that even if a great amount of technical work is put into this, you'll never know the answer unless the person in question agrees to participate.

You can test your techniques on comments (not used in training) for which you know the author. If you can achieve a high accuracy there, you can be fairly sure to be correct in the challenge, too.

Run it through a Markovian classifier like CRM114 (or, if that's too expensive, just do it for the likely candidates identified by your naive Bayesian classifier).

Hey hey, two guesses each :)

Now I have to add my third from the list: nostrademons.

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