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What about a nag screen that only pops up when the post sounds snarky or angry, as determined by a ML/NLP model
by fighterpilot 5y ago
What about a nag screen that only pops up when the post sounds snarky or angry, as determined by a ML/NLP model
- dang 5y agoI'd need to see such a model doing a good-enough job of identifying snarky / angry comments. The worst case of such a solution is that it's almost good enough but not quite—an uncanny valley type thing—in which case it will just piss people off. And anything less good than that would merely add noise. Edit: of course, since comments are all public data, anyone who wanted to could work on such a model, and if anyone came up with one that was good enough, that would be significant work and I would very much like to know!
- xapata 5y agoThe expensive part is gathering good labels. Who wants to pay someone to tag things as snarky or angry?
- dang 5y agoWe might be willing to pay. It might also be possible to marshal a community effort, if it were organized in the right way. Hmm - there might be something to this idea. The trick would be to set it up so that even if it failed, it would be an interesting failure.
- xapata 5y agoYou can get intriguing descriptive statistics (n-gram frequencies, time distributions) from even a relatively small labeling effort, well before you have much predictive value. So, in that sense you'll have something interesting in failure. If you'd like a hand, please email me. I figure you have access to my hidden email address.