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New Project To End Stupidity Online

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the then-they-make-a-better-idiot dept.

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."

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  1. Re:My favorite bit by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bigger problem is who decides what is stupid?
    All too often on Slashdot people actually believe that "Smart==Thinks like me" and "Stupid==Doesn't think like me"

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  2. I don't buy it. by Valdrax · · Score: 5, Insightful

    see Kuro5in.org for moderation technology that actually works Or one that promotes cliques. Accountability in moderation produces the same abuses it does in voting -- ganging up on people who see things differently from you. Unless something at Kuro5hin has radically changed in the past 2-3 years, count me as not impressed.

    Anonymous moderation is subject to its own sets of abuses, but "accountable" moderation is no panacea.
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    If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").