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1. If you can, consider changing the title to "Show HN: [DESCRIPTION]" 2. It's an awesome idea and I installed it for Gmail, but I feel it doesn't do a particu
by acangiano 15y ago
1. If you can, consider changing the title to "Show HN: [DESCRIPTION]"
2. It's an awesome idea and I installed it for Gmail, but I feel it doesn't do a particularly good job at this stage (unless of course one introduces direct offenses using words like moron, idiot, etc).
I'll give you one crude example, where the software miserably failed to detect potentially upsetting language. It's intentionally over the top.
"That's not what I said at all. You guys don't understand what I'm saying. I wish I had smarter coworkers. Your mothers were clearly too busy sleeping around with large animals, instead of teaching you how to listen. I'll talk with your manager about this, because you clearly don't get it. Fuck this."
It would be an incredible product if it could catch much more subtle issues than that.
For example: "Did you even bother reading my email?" should be red flagged, so that it can be corrected to something like "Did you have a chance to read my email yet?" or "I wasn't very clear in my previous email. Allow me to explain further."
3. This would be an amazing tool for any textbox on the web (via browser extension). Its use would certainly be encouraged here on HN for commenters.
- aangjie 15y agoThanks for the detailed feedback. 1. Oops too late to edit it now. 2. Hmm that level subtlety will take time to evolve i guess. My understanding(from the api results) has been that they use an elaborate model. 3.Cool idea, never thought of that. They do have an api and i think they can persuaded to give a free developer account for HN. Where can i propose this as a feature? Or perhaps i can learn arc and create a wrapper.Any idea where i can find the source for HN code?
- acangiano 15y agoRegarding point 3, I don't suggest that they make it HN specific. Rather, via browser extension, append that functionality to any textbox the user is writing in.