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1. b_emer+A4[view] [source] 2011-04-03 20:57:09
>>pg+(OP)
3 words: Bayesian Comment Filter. Just does the opposite of what the spam filter does. Use the corpus of great comments from the past to find great comments of the present.

I'm only half joking. Fundamentally, the thread is about a filtering system.

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2. pg+65[view] [source] 2011-04-03 21:02:57
>>b_emer+A4
That could work, actually. Instead of focusing on discouraging bad comments, maybe the answer is to promote good ones. Plus I have some code I could use for that.
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3. colins+Ka[view] [source] 2011-04-03 22:32:47
>>pg+65
But it raises the question, do you have a way to single out the corpus of good comments from the past? If past up-votes were reliable I don't think this thread would exist.
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