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New Project To End Stupidity Online
mrneutron2003 writes to tell us that StupidFilter, a new Open Source project started by Gabriel Ortiz and Paul Starr, plans to provide an intellectual prophylactic for memetically transmitted diseases. "Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise. The advent of user-driven web content has compounded the matter yet further, straining our tolerance to the breaking point. It's time to fight back."
... no wonder it's so quiet here.
From the project FAQ:
It brings up an interesting question, though. On my blog, I have two layers of filtering against spam, and I'll delete any spam that gets through. I'll also delete the insults and obvious trolls. But sometimes I'll leave the dumb comments intact. I don't know if it's pity, or the kind of amusement one gets out of, say, lolcats, or what.
What I want to know is who this evil Dr. Noone is and why she is allowed to deny things we mere mortals cannot.
i\hbar\dot{\psi}=\hat{H}\psi
StupidFilter promises to leverage techniques such as Beyesian filtering
And with that mistake, I'm now filtering out FastSilicon.
Never as now, has the phrase, "Nothing to see here. Move along" been more appropriate.
Ryan Fenton
Finally something that will prove the stupidity of that man-made global warming theory and remove it from the liberal religion!
-Rich Cook
Excuse me while I gather the virgin sacrifice and assemble the pentagram required to solve your problem
Upon reading the summary, it occurred to me that downgrading any comments that link to Wikipedia would probably solve about 20% of the problem immediately. Thank you for your helpful demonstration!
This just in: Natalie Portman, on behalf of the Hot Grits Council of America and in conjunction with the Reversalmasters of Soviet Russia, has released a statement crying out to end this First Postian genocide. "They are comments just like all the rest. Just because they were born in the mind of a less intelligent person does take away their inalienable rights of commentality."
I got a catholic block.
So, basically, this is going to compare every post against 4chan, and if it finds a match, delete it.
Great idea.
tits or GTFO.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
I for one welcome ..[FILTERED]..
They are going to unplug the internet.
Imagine an outbound firewall that poses a series of questions to anyone who tries to use it.
If you can't solve a grammar problem that requires you to know the difference between "their", "there", and "they're" you don't get to use email.
If you can't choose the correct definitions from multiple choices for "intellectual property", "piracy", "flame", and "rtfm" you don't get to use the web.
If you can't solve a quadratic equation, your computer is set to inbound traffic only.
Problem solved.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
The server at www.fastsilicon.com is taking too long to respond.
:(
Apparently not as fast as someone thought it was
Ok who is the wiseguy that is actually reading the article.
First they came for the cliches, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a cliche. Then they came for the memes...
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
I for one, welcome our stupid filt.......
[This post censored by StupidFilter v0.1 - Topic: Slashdot Memes.]
My blog
I hope they are very successful in their efforts. That's certainly a project I'll gladly contribute to.
"In case of emergency, break glass. Scream. Bleed to death."
To one side of the 'getting online safely test' are a bunch of random Google ads. One is for a "See Natalie Portman Naked! Click here! (requires installation of viewer software)" link.
We'll be nice and give them the benefit of the doubt -- they have to click on both that *and* the subsequent screen, that says, "install natalie.exe? Y/N" and only then does the shaped charge in the keyboard go off and blow off both their hands.
Nostalgia's not what it used to be.
Dvorak seen in New York City just outside Wall Street shoeless and holding a sign: "Will make wild, unsupported predictions for food."
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
And it didn't even make the top 10 list!
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. (Oh dear, I wonder if any proponents of Intelligent Design have ever read Hitchhikers?)
If there were such a thing as an Online Stupid Filter, it would have filtered itself out of existence.
Due to many/most of its pages being references to suchlike aforementioned stupidity. A blue-light filter works by absorbing blue-light, a coffee-filter works by absorbing coffee (well, the grounds, at least) - any guess what a Stupid Filter absorbs?
Due to the vast majority of The Internet being not much more than stupidity, and in much the same way as a Black Hole will absorb all light and therefore be essentially invisible (we have never *found* a black hole, just a whole bunch of conditions which theory predicts would be "caused by black holes").
Seriously folks, The Stupidity Filter obviously doesn't work - the proof is in most comments on this page (present company excepted, naturally).
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
n savyet rusha, a chezbergur can has a lolcats!
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to XXXdangerXXX Stupidity. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you. Ya know...Like comments from
Stupid people are so ingenious.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Yup. I thought that there might be a problem with trying to implement stupidity filters. I thought that if it actually worked at all, its first victim would be the stupidity filter itself.
'We have met the enemy...'
Best regards.
This whole idea is just begging for the Rod Serling treatment.
... the Twilight Zone.
Meet Mssers. Ortiz and Starr, self-proclaimed protectors of members of society from their own stupidity. If they aren't careful, they may find that the only way to escape the negative characteristics to be found in all men is a trip to
1. This project is online
2. It's aim is to end stupidity online
3. But ending stupidity online would require the removal of this project.
4. Repeat, Recurse And Profit!!!
My brain hurts.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Sorry guys, slashdot + mysql = tears. Randomized stupidity temporarily disabled until the load lightens up a touch.
Now, for the Irony filter...
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
I totally agree with you. Your points are both intelligent and compelling, and I think everyone ought to look at things the way you do. Anyone who disagrees is an idiot, and it's not even worth the time to expose yourself to anything they say.
;)
(had trouble getting this one past the redundancy filter...)