Show HN: Weekend Project - Hide Inane Comments on HN

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.chrisumbel.com/article/node_js_natural_language_n...

Decided to test this on my posts.

Posts like this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543140) are removed. That is a valuable post. It directly solves a problem, while highlighting a new feature that people not not have been aware of.

I only point this out as in the article linked to by the README says: "Just because a comment is easy to read does not mean it’s inherently worthless, and in some cases these are the most important ones."

Good first shot though. =) I wonder if you could reverse the plugin to help improve my own comments.

You got rejected by it, incidentally.

Inanity and reading level in english are orthogonal concepts.

Unsurprisingly, such a technique seems likely to be biased against non-native speakers. But it's entirely possible to make insightful points without sophisticated language.