In this task, you are given a public comment from online platforms. You are expected to classify the comment into two classes: threat and non-threat. Threat is a statement that someone will be hurt or harmed, especially if the person does not do something in particular.

[EX Q]: Comment: simplistic idea.  Really simplistic.   Shoot, ready, aim.  What a maroon.
[EX A]: Threat

[EX Q]: Comment: Whether I think a "political campaign should be carried out by 140 character tweets" or whether you do is irrelevant.  HIs Tweets worked.  He is the President-elect. 

 He didn't want to stay out the media; he wanted Free media; and he got it.

The Carnegie Mellon analysis is irrelevant to his results.  The US Army had to 'dumb down' its training to the 8th grade reading level when we went All Volunteer army in the 1980's.  And IQs have been steadily dropping since.  

Who do you think Motor Voter and other 'increase the number of voters' programs  were registering to vote?  Rhodes' Scholars and PhD Candidates?   Nope.  A lot of people who were either too disinterested or too ignorant to bother makes up that kind of registration.
[EX A]: Non-threat

[EX Q]: Comment: Save a wolf
Shoot a wolf hunter
[EX A]:
Threat