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A good use for stupidfilter http://stupidfilter.org/ perhaps?

The project is mature enough - time to start using it http://stupidfilter.org/

http://stupidfilter.org/
Works for me.

In addition to the lameness filter, we should also implement the Stupid Filter, once it is finished.

Maybe Smug-Block could be an add-on for StupidFilter. =)

Stupidfilter is blind to irony. It says so in the FAQ.

First you dare us to slashdot you, then you cry like a little bitch?

From your website (at http://stupidfilter.org/random.php):
Sorry guys, slashdot + mysql = tears. Randomized stupidity temporarily disabled until the load lightens up a touch.

Go ahead, slashdot me. I dare ya.

From http://stupidfilter.org/random.php:

Sorry guys, slashdot + mysql = tears. Randomized stupidity temporarily disabled until the load lightens up a touch.

Did we win something? (In all seriousness, it would've been nice to see the random page working correctly, and your silly comment just makes it all the more sad..)

Skip the ad-laden overloaded blogodreck site and go directly to StupidFilter. The concept is straightforward - they're training a naive Bayesian classifier, like a spam filter, on a set of text excerpts rated by humans. You can look at random samples from the training set for amusement.

Wikipedia already has some 'bots that do somewhat similar things, looking for totally bogus edits and reverting them. Yahoo's "commercial intent" filter also does something like that, to separate commercial and non-commercial sites. We considered something like that for SiteTruth, where we need to distinguish non-commercial sites so we don't rate them by business criteria.

This approach to filtering will probably need domain-dependent filters. A political site, a social site, a sports site, and a game site all need different training sets. I'd go for a two-stage classifier, one that divided sites into about ten to twenty major categories, and then a stupidity filter trained for each of those categories.

Applying such a filter at blog posting time should be interesting.

And the characters in these books, and plays, and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate the very least he can do is to shut up. - Tom Lehrer.

Skip the ad-laden overloaded blogodreck site and go directly to StupidFilter. The concept is straightforward - they're training a naive Bayesian classifier, like a spam filter, on a set of text excerpts rated by humans. You can look at random samples from the training set for amusement.

Wikipedia already has some 'bots that do somewhat similar things, looking for totally bogus edits and reverting them. Yahoo's "commercial intent" filter also does something like that, to separate commercial and non-commercial sites. We considered something like that for SiteTruth, where we need to distinguish non-commercial sites so we don't rate them by business criteria.

This approach to filtering will probably need domain-dependent filters. A political site, a social site, a sports site, and a game site all need different training sets. I'd go for a two-stage classifier, one that divided sites into about ten to twenty major categories, and then a stupidity filter trained for each of those categories.

Applying such a filter at blog posting time should be interesting.

And the characters in these books, and plays, and so on, and in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate the very least he can do is to shut up. - Tom Lehrer.

And you didn't link the actual website in the post. It's http://stupidfilter.org
Go ahead, slashdot me. I dare ya.

the article is slashdotted, the website in question is not: http://stupidfilter.org/main/

When their website references retarded 4chan memes like "MOAR" (the link is to preview their moderations of content).

The whole point of filtering stupidity is to get rid of these mindless un-humorisms, not reinforce them. Using these tired jokes on their site is the equivalent of claiming to fight spam but having one of those FWD: FWD: FWD: SEND THIS TO 20 PEOPLE FOR GOOD LUCK!!! emails as your homepage.