Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by dpwm » Thu, Oct 04, 2018, 8:15 AM UTC

flamtap wrote: post #28

ianmcgowan wrote: post #26

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

My rule of thumb for email correspondence is the "you idiot" rule. If the email could be appended with the words "you idiot" without changing the overall tone, then I need to rephrase.

I do this too and at first I needed to rewrite quite a few emails. Over time it's completely changed the way I write emails.

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

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Post by rapnie » Thu, Oct 04, 2018, 8:27 AM UTC

lettergram wrote: post #39

def8cefe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't seem like HNProfile is particularly accurate. It seems to interpret terse comments as unhappy, and all my interests listed come from a single comment thread a couple months ago discussing Canadian regions instead of anything technical I have talked about. I will say that I'm unhappy that you've built a chart on what you percieve my mood to be and published it without my consent.

It's not particularly accurate, which kind of is my point... I was able to get right around 80%, between myself and others manually tagging the dataset. Funny thing, even with myself and others tagging the content, there is a high variance in our scoring. Meaning - accuracy is in part the eye of the beholder. Also, if you think that this is intrusive -- imagine the NSA reading your personal email

Yeah.. from them I don't expect adherance to GDPR. You however are commercial, have no Privacy Policy, and collect, analyse and publish to the public user data (which in many cases is not anonymous, or can be easily de-anonymized) without their consent.

The fact it is not particularly accurate makes this even worse.

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

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Post by baud147258 » Thu, Oct 04, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

ianmcgowan wrote: post #26

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

> As soon as we talked on the phone, they became a real person to me, and I felt like the utter dick that I had been.

It reminds me when I was doing Jira & Confluence admin work for team leads at my previous job. I don't think I was a dick to the (many) people sending mails asking for admin operation, but when one came to see me in order to work together on his task workflow, this person went from an outlook contact to a real person and I realize that I could have been more polite in my email answer. Also it was weird, because from his picture I had imagined him taller.

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

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Post by clairecrombie » Thu, Oct 04, 2018, 12:44 PM UTC

Thanks for all the feedback. Will have a look through them all

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

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Post by madmulita » Thu, Oct 04, 2018, 1:07 PM UTC

andischo wrote: post #9

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 mentio…

Yeah, but this way we can end blaming the computer for not stoping us.

Who wants to be responsable for his acts?

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

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Post by palakchokshi » Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 12:20 AM UTC

genidoi wrote: post #50

palakchokshi wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment and the one above it in the thread are perfect examples of use cases of "Should I send it?"

On the contrary they seem like perfectly rational responses to an introductory video that is redundant at best and patronising at worst. I was dissuaded from installing it because I assume the products quality would reflect how little the founders seem to understand people in thinking that it's necessary to accurately detail what a poor start to the day would look like. The video should be a simple gif demonstrating…

The feedback might have been good but the tone of those comments had hint of snark. Considering the product is to help you remove negative sentiment from your responses I would say they were good use cases.

replace blathering and blabber with more constructive words