I’d love to see a category like “productively salty” which would do something like an h index ranking. Your score is the highest number n such that you have n salty comments with at least n net score.
This sounds interesting. I like it.
The Saltiest Users on HN
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#72I would be interested to know what words/phrases are the best predictors of saltiness.
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#73This website has no contrast. I can't read it at all.
Sorry about that, and thank you for the feedback. I'll try to make sure it is more readable in the next version. Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment I'm writing, as well as the comment I'm replying to, are both "salty" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=salty
It's funny because this one sounds much more charitable: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/salty
Broadly applied definition, weakly defined.
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#75Why the hell am I not on that list?
Your account is pretty new. We intentionally remove any accounts with less then ? number of comments to discourage people from attempting to set a record. Lol
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your definition of 'salty'? I think you can definitely be politely salty, and dang's comments are all saying (at least) 'don't do that' which seems to fit.
My understanding of the word lines up pretty well with the Merriam-Webster definition ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salty ): feeling or showing resentment towards a person or situation; bitter. By that standard, just telling someone not to do something wouldn't be salty. Salty is telling someone not to do something because only an idiot would do that.
This seems to me to be detecting how "snarky" a comment is, rather than how salty, as it seems to include snappy, sarcastic, and impertinent comments.
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#77Well, I guess I'm not very salty at all: rank 1236. Only 360/1698 comments were considered salty.
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#78It is my feeling that sentiment analysis has a ways to go. Here are a few of the comments I've made that the system has described as among my saltiest: Oh, sorry, "nm" means "nanometer" to me, but of course nautical miles. (Score: -0.5. Comment is entirely taking responsibility for misinterpreting someone) Well, if he was trying 1M combinations every 40 seconds, for $7 per hour, and he didn't need to use hundreds of…
Thanks for trying my app! And thank you for taking the time to respond! It does have a LONG way to go. These are valid criticisms. And all areas we are working to improve on with our next ML model. (Sad vs Negative, rating numbers as "salty", This model is pretty simple. It's using TextBlob and looking for a combination of negative sentiment (not necessarily condescending) and subjectivity. Essentially hand built heu…
No problem. By the way, another thing that seems like it maybe departs from the intuition of human-understanding of negative sentiment versus the machine scoring: I notice that almost all of the highly negatively rated comments that it's flagged -- both mine and others -- are relatively short.
I know that there are multi-paragraph laments about how dumb other people are or whatever on HN. In general, those strike me as seeming more salty than even deeply negative one-sentence putdowns. Like, sure, "Javascript is awful" is clearly negative sentiment. But spilling a few hundred words on the topic of "Javascript is awful" is surely more so?
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#79Defining saltiest by counting salty words has some serious limitations. #2 on the "Total Overall Score" list, merricksb, only points out reposts, and politely points users to the original post. merricksb's only sin is using the words "discuss" and "discussed". Maybe those are considered salty because "discussed" sounds like "disgust"?
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#80Amusingly, this seems to think I'm pretty unsalty, assuming I'm not misunderstanding something.
This is amusing from two perspectives:
1. Posting as openly female has been enough drama that the low score doesn't really jibe with how other people seem to perceive me.
2. I have a condition that causes unusually salty sweat. There are other people here with a more severe form of it who presumably are saltier than I am, but most of you people can't compete with my brine.