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An interesting idea for a service, could call it filterhatemail.com

by gist 10y ago

kaybe 10y ago
They had that in a Southpark episode; it didn't end well for the filtering kid.
corobo 10y ago
This idea is stupid and you should feel stupid!* * Not necessarily true, who filters for the filterers?
- tptacek 10y ago
  If you think I would pass dumb comments along, don't ask me to read comments for your company. I agree that this is the worst startup idea ever.
  - harmegido 10y ago
    Yo
  - corobo 10y ago
    At least it subscribes to the "Do things that don't scale" mantra. Can you imagine trying to run that sort of operation but for the sake of argument instead of HN comments, YouTube comments. On that note I'm surprised nobody's using the YouTube API to do some Akismet-like auto-filtering already.
    - JoachimSchipper 10y ago
      From http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status: [For StupidFilter, w]e've gathered a fairly large (225K+ comments) database of comments, primarily from Youtube, that ever-inspiring font of stupidity. We've implemented a web-based comment ranking system to seed our stupidity corpus and that's proceeding nicely. Apparently it's now in beta...
      - ryandamm 10y ago
        This kind of makes me happy, that this exists. This must be the saddest AI ever, though. Or at least the most pessimistic about humanity, being trained on YouTube comments...
  - viraptor 10y ago
    Is it? Maybe not just as a hatemail filter, but someone who actually collates responses, tries to get the reason for criticism without getting into arguments, and tries to extract actionable ideas from overall internet response could be an interesting offer. Sounds almost like it could be uservoice.com's premium offer.
    - prawn 10y ago
      I agree - doesn't scale, but it's far from a bad idea. I've done it for someone who takes reviews very personally. I abstracted the useful criticism and didn't make mention of the petty stuff.
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An interesting idea for a service, could call it filterhatemail.com

by gist 10y ago

An interesting idea for a service, could call it filterhatemail.com

kaybe 10y ago

They had that in a Southpark episode; it didn't end well for the filtering kid.

corobo 10y ago

This idea is stupid and you should feel stupid!* * Not necessarily true, who filters for the filterers?

tptacek 10y ago
If you think I would pass dumb comments along, don't ask me to read comments for your company. I agree that this is the worst startup idea ever.
- harmegido 10y ago
  Yo
- corobo 10y ago
  At least it subscribes to the "Do things that don't scale" mantra. Can you imagine trying to run that sort of operation but for the sake of argument instead of HN comments, YouTube comments. On that note I'm surprised nobody's using the YouTube API to do some Akismet-like auto-filtering already.
  - JoachimSchipper 10y ago
    From http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status: [For StupidFilter, w]e've gathered a fairly large (225K+ comments) database of comments, primarily from Youtube, that ever-inspiring font of stupidity. We've implemented a web-based comment ranking system to seed our stupidity corpus and that's proceeding nicely. Apparently it's now in beta...
    - ryandamm 10y ago
      This kind of makes me happy, that this exists. This must be the saddest AI ever, though. Or at least the most pessimistic about humanity, being trained on YouTube comments...
- viraptor 10y ago
  Is it? Maybe not just as a hatemail filter, but someone who actually collates responses, tries to get the reason for criticism without getting into arguments, and tries to extract actionable ideas from overall internet response could be an interesting offer. Sounds almost like it could be uservoice.com's premium offer.
  - prawn 10y ago
    I agree - doesn't scale, but it's far from a bad idea. I've done it for someone who takes reviews very personally. I abstracted the useful criticism and didn't make mention of the petty stuff.

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