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I honestly think this is the way to go, especially if you figure out a good damper on frivolous commentary.
by alnayyir 16y ago
I honestly think this is the way to go, especially if you figure out a good damper on frivolous commentary.
- todayiamme 16y agoThere's always the stupidity corpus that mr. Graham used to talk about... http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status
- bobds 16y agoThat would prevent people from using throwaway accounts, which a lot of people seem to do. And they are not spammers.
- todayiamme 16y agoI've thought about this too and it looked like a tough problem to solve, but it isn't. Why do people do that? They usually do it for Ask HN posts and well you can easily discriminate for them. Further if anyone tries to spoof the system by adding a URL there then we can parse it to see if there is any text there according to the stupidity filter. So, essentially it will still work.