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Text Mining the Multiverse

Posted by michael on from the mother-lode dept.

The NYT has a decent piece about text-mining, skimming large volumes of miscellaneous text to extract some sort of refined knowledge from it.

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  1. THIS IS THE FP BITCHES!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hahaha

  2. What's up with Slashdot? by Kombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is gonna cost me some "Offtopic" modes, but I can afford the Karma, and I'm really curious.

    What the heck is up with Slashdot lately? Has anyone else noticed the weirdness? First of all, when I metamod now, I only get 1 or 2 posts to metamod, instead of the usual 10 or so. Secondly, I haven't had mod points in an eternity, and it doesn't seem like many others have either. The number of posts that breach my +2 threshold has been noticeably lower over the last week or so. Often, stories mentioning "spammers" or "telemarketers" will easily garner 300+ posts that have been modded up, but lately, it seems it's a rarity for a story to even break 100 modded-up comments.

    Are there fewer moderators out there nowadays? Are they overhauling the moderation system? What's going on? Anyone know?

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    1. Re:What's up with Slashdot? by devphaeton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Fwiw....

      I've noticed this as well.

      Netcraft confirms that the Bleagured Slashdot is Dying....

      For seriously, yes. Not only have i noticed much fewer posts to articles, but much less modding up, or even modding at all in many articles. Even those posts desperately deservant of it.

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    2. Re:What's up with Slashdot? by daeley · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      This is OT, but read this journal entry from CmdrTaco.

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    3. Re:What's up with Slashdot? by davidstrauss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Agreed.

    4. Re:What's up with Slashdot? by joeldg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      yes, I have noticed the metamod thing too..

      in addition there is also this tasteless group of guys who keep making posts about greased-up yoda dolls which has also forced me to start browsing at +2..

      seems that mod points are being handed out with less frequency than they were before.

      I think they should start handing them out for people with "excellent karma" and then track if the metamods agree with the point distribution..

      that is just me..

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    5. Re:What's up with Slashdot? by cK-Gunslinger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Answers to your questions: HERE

    6. Re:What's up with Slashdot? by TheFlyingGoat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I think part of it has to do with the number of posts lately. The last 10 articles (not including the current) have had an average of 224 posts. I estimated the average in early-mid summer and came up with 550. Twice as many posts = twice as much required moderation? I'm not sure how slash works in this regard.

      Now, as far as the reason for fewer posts, I know that the editors have said that late summer-fall tends to be slower for news, but I also think they've been putting up some boring articles lately. Granted, they may be exciting to some people, but I'm just generalizing. Hey editors... instead of posting articles just for the sake of posting articles, how about sticking only with the interesting ones and taking the leftover time and hunting for other interesting websites to feature? Maybe even write an editorial or two? A State-of-the-Slashdot address? Something fun? :)

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  3. You mean you don't already have one? by djeaux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Something tells me at least six /.ers are already working on the case mods :-D

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  4. bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Taco, et. al, can simply enter in the article into Google News and get a NYT link that does NOT require registration. This simple 20 second step is something that can be easily done for each NYT story.