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Hopefully no one will take this as a challenge...

sp332 16y ago
Not too hard. "Scala Scala Scala" is enough to round up to 100.0%. It did say this (legitimate) comment of mine was 99.57%. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599910
- riffer 16y ago
  Funny that you should try gaming it. This week we're using the platform to do blog comment spam filtering. Is the comment off-topic (or just not on-topic) for the post? Edit: To clarify, I was just saying that we have spent a lot of time today thinking about how these things can be gamed by evil spammers, not calling anybody or anything off-topic; apologies for any confusion
  - sp332 16y ago
    Well, it was closely related to the comment I replied to, but that comment was probably off-topic for the thread. Generally, if you put "sp332" into http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/discourse/hn_comments/ http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/discourse/hn_comments/ the comments around 75% are all on-topic except #5. I don't understand why #14, "Update: nope." gets a rank of 62.09?
- jerf 16y ago
  I'm a little confused by the scoring; I have two comments at "100.00", and one of them is "http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/H/hacker-humor.htmlNot http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/H/hacker-humor.htmlNot that I want HN to become a joke-a-day site but accidental-hacker-humor like this is a unusual enough find that I can deal with the rare exception." The other one is more legitimately geeky, but I'm lost on what 100.00 means exactly. (Edit: Must be "hacker", but I'm still curious what the 100.00 means.)
  - riffer 16y ago
    "hacker" and also "exception" scores really well There aren't any words like "war" or "contrary" that are far way from the seed, and would indicate that some non-technical meaning should be inferred for "exception" On the "100" ... that is just a z-score scaled to a 0-100 range, with capping at 100 rather than making it approach asymptotically.
paulgb 16y ago
The challenge is to engineer a non-geeky comment that can stack up against the others.
- powrtoch 16y ago
  Scala, my pet python, bit the rails of his cage's framework wide open-sources say the process takes stacks of CS (chewing sounds).

sp332 16y ago

Not too hard. "Scala Scala Scala" is enough to round up to 100.0%. It did say this (legitimate) comment of mine was 99.57%. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599910

riffer 16y ago
Funny that you should try gaming it. This week we're using the platform to do blog comment spam filtering. Is the comment off-topic (or just not on-topic) for the post? Edit: To clarify, I was just saying that we have spent a lot of time today thinking about how these things can be gamed by evil spammers, not calling anybody or anything off-topic; apologies for any confusion
- sp332 16y ago
  Well, it was closely related to the comment I replied to, but that comment was probably off-topic for the thread. Generally, if you put "sp332" into http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/discourse/hn_comments/ http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/discourse/hn_comments/ the comments around 75% are all on-topic except #5. I don't understand why #14, "Update: nope." gets a rank of 62.09?
jerf 16y ago
I'm a little confused by the scoring; I have two comments at "100.00", and one of them is "http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/H/hacker-humor.htmlNot http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/H/hacker-humor.htmlNot that I want HN to become a joke-a-day site but accidental-hacker-humor like this is a unusual enough find that I can deal with the rare exception." The other one is more legitimately geeky, but I'm lost on what 100.00 means exactly. (Edit: Must be "hacker", but I'm still curious what the 100.00 means.)
- riffer 16y ago
  "hacker" and also "exception" scores really well There aren't any words like "war" or "contrary" that are far way from the seed, and would indicate that some non-technical meaning should be inferred for "exception" On the "100" ... that is just a z-score scaled to a 0-100 range, with capping at 100 rather than making it approach asymptotically.

paulgb 16y ago

The challenge is to engineer a non-geeky comment that can stack up against the others.

powrtoch 16y ago
Scala, my pet python, bit the rails of his cage's framework wide open-sources say the process takes stacks of CS (chewing sounds).