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The end of online stupidity?
article First Clipped on Nov. 12, 2007
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A filter to block 'stupid' comments and forum posts in the same way spam filers block spam? Say it ain't so! The issues of irony and sarcasm raise their heads, and we get the following interesting piece of information:
The stupid-filter team is trying to accommodate this behavior with a variety of rules of thumb. For instance, Ortiz, who studied linguistics as an undergrad, recently noticed a pattern in the way some writers use letter repetition. The clueless tend to repeat consonants: "This video is amazinggggg!!!" By comparison, says Ortiz, "when you repeat a vowel, you're being sarcastic -- 'Yeaaaaaah.' We'll be using several different methods to try to mediate this."
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