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The comments so far refer to the "sentiment deducer" aspect of the service. They've brought up some examples of how it's not working right now, but they missed
by rwolf 17y ago
The comments so far refer to the "sentiment deducer" aspect of the service. They've brought up some examples of how it's not working right now, but they missed an important question: what in the world is "positive sentiment" abstracted from context, and why would I want to know if a site had it?
An issue we haven't brought up is tags. Current tags for HN: "ago, points, comments, com, hours, hour, hacker, discuss, minutes, tornado." I see some good ones, but it's quite noisy (and it seems to have grabbed the tornado story as a main topic--scraping the title?). This feature seems most useful to me, and most easy to improve.
- paraschopra 17y agoNo, not just a title but the whole website. The algo currently works on TF-IDF of the tags, and HN is full of points, ago, hours, etc. repeated all over it. This increases the TF. We would be putting an upper limit on it though.
- rwolf 17y agoI didn't mean the title tag--I meant the first story title (the SEO kids talk about google fixating on the first h1 tag of a site, I though it might be a similar idea). I have no idea what this upper limit change would do, but good luck.