In the last write-off, I guessed the authors of 5 stories, got 3 of them right, and was right with my 2nd-place guess on a fourth.

How did I do it? Simple: I'm smart. Smart enough to cheat.

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darf recently made public that he is also NTSTS, so I can finally show you this tree I made using stylo back in 2014 of some fimfic authors:

Look closely at the darf / NTSTS entries:

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My stylometric analysis gave us a sharp division between stories written by professional authors and stories from fimfiction. A very big part of that was using Equestrian vocabulary.

stylo produces a file, 'wordlist.txt', that lists all the words to be used for the analysis. You can take that file, add or remove words, and then check the box Features -> Existing wordlist to use that file instead of generating a new one.

I removed Equestrian vocabulary from wordslist:

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I haven't read Go Set a Watchman, the new old book by Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. But Stylo has.

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