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Isn't the whole reason behind the 'points' part of the HN comments to hide inane comments? If a comment is inane, it will be down-voted and grayed out. I think
by RyanZAG 14y ago
Isn't the whole reason behind the 'points' part of the HN comments to hide inane comments? If a comment is inane, it will be down-voted and grayed out. I think relying on humans is a far better filter for inane comments than number of syllables in a sentence.
That said, the code looks good and the idea is fun - might be nice to try and implement a javascript NLP library to make it more intelligent? [1]
[1] http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/node_js_natural_language_nlp http://www.chrisumbel.com/article/node_js_natural_language_n...
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoWell, at a certain number of levels deep, comments seem to be un-downvoteable. I don't quite understand why.
- tvon 14y agoI think there is just a delay, to keep back-and-forth arguing at a minimum you cannot immediately vote on or respond to a deeply nested comment.
- illuminate 14y agoTo keep the bickering to a minimum.
- solox3 14y agoHas it happened to you at least once that something was greyed out, but you instinctively tried harder to read it because you couldn't?