>> The biggest danger is not the obviously bad comments, though. It's the meretricious ones-- the zippy one-line putdowns and strident political statements-- because the newer users actually vote these up.
How about using your ideas from your antispam series* to limit maximum karma points awarded to a comment? Would it trigger too many false positives/negatives?
I remember someone applying a learning network or something like that to filter HN articles a while back and it didn't turn out that bad.
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>> The biggest danger is not the obviously bad comments, though. It's the meretricious ones-- the zippy one-line putdowns and strident political statements-- because the newer users actually vote these up.
How about using your ideas from your antispam series* to limit maximum karma points awarded to a comment? Would it trigger too many false positives/negatives?
I remember someone applying a learning network or something like that to filter HN articles a while back and it didn't turn out that bad.
*http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html