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'StupidFilter' Blocks Dumb Comments Online

by Tim Stevens on November 9, 2007 at 09:48 AM

Comment Filter Sorts Out InanityIf you've ever read the comments that stack up below some of our posts, you may have stumbled across a few that make you wonder just what the person who created the post in question was smoking or drinking when they wrote it.

According to Josh Quittner in Fortune, there might be a solution to end to those babbling, nonsensical, and sometimes even amusing comments that certainly give us a chuckle. Software engineers in Albuquerque are working on a so-called "stupid filter" that would pop up a message whenever a user tries to submit an inane comment.

The filter would, upon detecting such a comment, redirect it back to the user and ask that he or she try to re-write it to a point where it makes sense. The hope is that, after a few tries, the people making irritating comments would just go away. The trick, of course, is actually separating the stupid from the sensical, and the inane from the ironic.

The filter is intended to be distributed for free, meaning, if all goes well, the days of the exclamation point being the most commonly used character in the comment field may soon be over.

From CNN Money

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Tags: Blogging, Comment, Filters, StupidFilter

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