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Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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For anyone wondering how it works:

> - The chrome extension doesn’t read the content of your web pages.

> - The chrome extension only reads your highlighted text when you click the extension smile icon.

> - Your highlighted text is passed from your browser to our API where the sentiment is calculated, we do not store in any way the text you highlight.

https://www.rarely.io/work/should-i-send-it

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Hey, so I've wondered for some time now how social media sites might benefit from a sentiment analysis score applied to their users, who are then given more or less moderation ability based on the result of that score.

Obviously tons of edge cases, but what do y'all think of this? Combined with Slashdot's "king for a day" moderation style, could this solve some of the lingering issues present in social media?

I'd love to sit down and talk to someone about this concept for awhile, see where the idea goes. I'm super sure it's come up before, I just wonder what the state of the art is.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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post #6

I pretend to be mature enough to understand my mood and the influence coming from it in my mails, thanks. Beside that I do not use webmails (except rare occasion) nor Chrome...

You do know the post wasn't written specifically for you...? It might benefit other users

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Having written my bachelor's thesis on how negation in sentences affects their sentiment: it is really, really difficult. Even just differentiating between negative/neutral/positive sentiment is successful only about ~65% of the time (depending on the source material). Text based Irony/Sarcasm detection is still an unsolved problem (most of the times even for humans, as it is strongly context dependent, not to mention missing indicators such as tone of voice and body language). Basically, you are way better of listening to your own intuition rather than using a computer to flip a coin.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

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Hey, so I've wondered for some time now how social media sites might benefit from a sentiment analysis score applied to their users, who are then given more or less moderation ability based on the result of that score. Obviously tons of edge cases, but what do y'all think of this? Combined with Slashdot's "king for a day" moderation style, could this solve some of the lingering issues present in social media? I'd lov…

Peepeth.com is experimenting with features like that. Currently, posts get a toxicity score from a Google API before they're even posted, and users are asked to confirm if it's above a certain threshold. Lots of false positives, but it seems to be reducing profanity.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

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