But in all seriousness from the article:
http://www.tfot.info/news/1065/stupidfilter-time-to-fight-back-the-imbeciles.html
"A team of American scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam recognizing software detects suspicious e-mails, the “StupidFilter” will look for pre-fed words or sign combinations that characterize stupidity, assigning particular tokens with different weights based on how often they occur in hand-picked examples of idiotic comments. The developers are using weighted Bayesian analysis along with some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines, in order to efficiently distinguish unacceptable messages among the submitted texts."
This could be an interesting solution to filtering out spam and just plain dumb comments that seem every so prevalent in many sites today (I'm looking at you youtube) If a post is deeped, well stupid by the stupid filter the user will recieve a message telling them they must rephrase thei post before they can post it. If done right this could be a good solution but there are many things that could go wrong with it (False-Positives and detecting things that are perfectly intelligent) but the team is working to differentiate between things like intentional spelling mistakes for emphasis and just plan spam posts.
lawl.
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That is pretty awesome, and amusing at the same time. When I first read it, I thought to myself, wow don't scientists have better things to do with their time that making a "stupid-filter?" When I really started thinking about it, it kind of made sense. My question is what is considered stupid? Are Viagra ad e-mails considered stupid? Even though most of us think they are stupid, they do serve the purpose of increasing awareness of a product. Second, does it count swearing as stupid, because that would be infringing upon the right to free speech? It will be interesting to see how far his filter actually goes, if it even reaches the product line.
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