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Stupid comments on HN are likely to be very different in form than stupid comments on Youtube. They are more likely to be written by smart-ish people who are e
by icky 19y ago
Stupid comments on HN are likely to be very different in form than stupid comments on Youtube.
They are more likely to be written by smart-ish people who are either acting belligerent or trolling.
Reddit might be a much better source of highbrow stupid.
Any site that refers lots of new traffic to HN might also be considered as a source of potentially stupid comments. A markovian discriminator could get very good at identifying, say, TechCrunch-style comments. ;-)
- dfranke 19y agoBut with Reddit you have to triage the comments, because there are always some intelligent ones. I think 4chan might be the best choice. I've heard it described as "where smart people go to be stupid", and I think that's reasonably accurate. ICHC would be good too if you ran it through a LOLspeak -> English translator first.
- icky 19y agoYou have to triage comments from any source, at least at first (and occasionally thereafter). But the filters learn very fast.
- dfranke 19y agoIdeally you'd triage them anyway, but the whole idea we're discussing here is to find sites monolithic enough that you can get away with not doing so.
- icky 19y agoNo, I think you'd have to settle for mining good sources of stupid, especially the sort of stupid likely to start creeping into HN.