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Bayesian Filtering For Dummies

Posted by timothy on from the to-increase-the-peace dept.

Dynamoo writes "Bayesian filtering for spam is awfully clever stuff, touched on by Slashdot several times before. There's a very accessible article at BBC News explaining in fairly simple terms the drawbacks of current keyword-based filtering. It's slightly ironic that the BBC, through the commissioning of Monty Python, also gave 'spam' its name. Those Vikings have a lot to answer for."

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  1. Re:Yes, we must filter out the dummies by Fembot · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Actualy you might joke about this, but I think that having an optional bonus given (As with the current karma bonus) for messages that arent likely to be classified as Troll, offtopic or reduntant might be quite helpful for casual readers.

    It would work based on the moderations of comments for the learning, and of course the bonus would be totaly userdefinable so you could set it to 0 and it would have no effect.

    Just my thoughts on the issue