Filter Out Stupid People From The Internet?

Published: November 21, 2007, 12:49 pm

Tags: internet, comments, critic, filter, people, stupid, video, detects, babs, aims, filters, hurts, support, youtube, crtics

Babs sent me the link to this one- a new project that aims to create a “stupid filter” that detects and filters out writing from stupid people, mostly in the form of comments on videos and blogs. I support this idea so much it hurts. You can read all about the project on their site, but the basic idea is to collect, sort/rate the stupidity of different pieces of text, and create a filter that can ignore ’stupidity’ as determined by the project’s findings. I think this is all well and good, and I hope they are able to create something usable or at the very least interesting, but I want to use this topic to launch off onto something else that I have been lamenting lately: video comments. Youtube et al. had the potential to create an amazingly powerful and democratic system for video criticism that could have revolutionized the way we find and discuss films. The 5 star rating system and the open comments on videos have the potential to allow everyone to

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