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Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN

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Post by harlanlewis »

youngerdryas wrote: post #28
ruswick wrote: post #21

This algorithm seems incredibly arbitrary and fails to account for the complexity of diction or sophistication of content of the post. (Obviously, this is incredibly difficult and computationally-intensive, and is likely untenable for a simple Chrome app, but applying such a narrow and draconian algorithm that reduces such complex facets of pedagogy and language into a calculus comprised only of sentence size and syl…

Indeed, brevity is the soul of wit.

I'm sorry, but this assemblage is aspiring to a sophisticated strata of dialogue. Kindly elevate your contribution beyond the 2nd grade level. (http://sarahktyler.com/code/sample.php)

...alright, even my tongue-in-cheek comment only hit the the 7th grade. Methinks the true goal of "a Chrome extension which hides all HackerNews comments that are below an 8th grade reading level" is to get everyone off the comments and back to work.

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN

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Post by solox3 »

RyanZAG wrote: post #2

Isn't the whole reason behind the 'points' part of the HN comments to hide inane comments? If a comment is inane, it will be down-voted and grayed out. I think relying on humans is a far better filter for inane comments than number of syllables in a sentence. That said, the code looks good and the idea is fun - might be nice to try and implement a javascript NLP library to make it more intelligent? [1] [1] http://www…

Has it happened to you at least once that something was greyed out, but you instinctively tried harder to read it because you couldn't?

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN

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Post by ruswick »

ruswick wrote: post #21

This algorithm seems incredibly arbitrary and fails to account for the complexity of diction or sophistication of content of the post. (Obviously, this is incredibly difficult and computationally-intensive, and is likely untenable for a simple Chrome app, but applying such a narrow and draconian algorithm that reduces such complex facets of pedagogy and language into a calculus comprised only of sentence size and syl…

Moreover, due to algorithmic simplicity, the results are simply wrong.

Almost assuredly, the preceding sentence could be comprehended by individuals with less education than a year of college education, yet most eighth graders would not be able to comprehend statements like "The impetus for men to exalt banal works of prose is arcane."

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN

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Post by davidmr »

Were I to have more patience and a digital copy of a Hemingway novel, I would be very curious to see the results. It's an interesting idea, but were you to enable it in practice, you'd lose a lot of quality content and have an HN even more dominated by native English speakers.

Re: Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN

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Post by illuminate »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #16
RyanZAG wrote: post #2

Isn't the whole reason behind the 'points' part of the HN comments to hide inane comments? If a comment is inane, it will be down-voted and grayed out. I think relying on humans is a far better filter for inane comments than number of syllables in a sentence. That said, the code looks good and the idea is fun - might be nice to try and implement a javascript NLP library to make it more intelligent? [1] [1] http://www…

Well, at a certain number of levels deep, comments seem to be un-downvoteable. I don't quite understand why.

To keep the bickering to a minimum.
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