[msluyter]

I love this!

I'm sort of proud to note that my salt score is -0.08, with my saltiest comment being:

The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers.

However, (and this will apparently add to my salt score ;)), I'm curious how a comments like these get rated as expressing a negative sentiment?:

Out of curiosity, how does Metro look to color blind people?

I used to get terribly sleepy in the afternoons; sometimes I'd go out to my car and take a 15 minute nap, even in the brutal Texas summer. Then I started taking vitamin D and went on a paleo diet, and now I almost never get tired in the afternoons. Nada. It's a great relief to not always be fighting to stay awake.

[danmg]

I'm nothing but salty and my score is -0.13. Garbage in garbage out.

Sentiment analysis is overall a dangerous way for social media players to punt around 'things we don't like', whatever that may be. You will end up shadowbanned on whatever social media platform you use, because you're not posting cat photos and other prosaic content that people trying to sell insurance policies, sugar water, and watches are okay with.

Thankfully, this is such an ill-posed problem, it will just be an embarrassing boondoggle.

[mabbo]

I wonder if the ML has learned that words like "brutal", "fighting" "tired" or even "terribly" imply saltiness. If that's the case, this reply to you is going to be pretty darned salty.

[zwieback]

I have the same score! Apparently I was a little salty in summer of 2011 and 2012, other than that I'm a pretty sweet guy.

[rtkwe]

I bet it's using a version of the basic sentiment score system used that just takes the 'positivity or negativity' of each work and then sums it up to figure out the sentence. Some are better than others but the most basic version is literally just a list of words with points and the sum is the score.

[crankylinuxuser]

For somoeone who goes by "crankylinuxusuer" I need to work on this! I only got a -.06

[weberc2]

I like the idea, but I'm very skeptical of the implementation. My saltiest comments per the tool are not remotely salty, and I'm sure I have many saltier comments. Turns out NLP is hard.

FWIW, my salt score is -0.09 ;)

[reificator]

> I like the idea, but I'm very skeptical of the implementation. My saltiest comments per the tool are not remotely salty, and I'm sure I have many saltier comments. Turns out NLP is hard.

> FWIW, my salt score is -0.09 ;)

Same salt score, same opinion on the results. My top salty comment has a score of -1.00

> > > Unfortunately it's not a bottle. It's just a plastic cup with a lid and a straw. A really big plastic cup that tapers at the bottom so you can fit it in your vehicle's cupholder.

> > In USA even the cups have muffin-tops!?

> Yep. Horrific, isn't it?

It's a joke, it's not terribly on topic, and it's a bit glib. But salty? Nah.

Fourth most "salty" comment, at a score of -0.50:

> I like having a library that I can flip to when I'm bored and want to do something productive.

Seventh most salty, at -0.45, is literally just an explanation of the second argument in Javascript's parseInt function. Ninth is just an earnest recap of a conversation about earworms.

Meanwhile the saltiest comment I saw in a quick skim is in 12th place, with a score of -0.30. I was discussing House of Cards and the then recent scandal around Kevin Spacey, and someone was putting words in my mouth and claiming I said things that I didn't actually say or believe. I was quite salty in my response(s), but here the tool marked it as 70% less salty than joking about muffin topped cups.

[Kassius509]

Yeah, it really thinks code is salty for some reason....

The Muffin Tops part is making me lol.

[Kassius509]

We used TextBlob for this one and penalized to help avoid false-positive classifications for saltiness (subjectivity + negativity).

[Kassius509]

I’m glad you like it! I think we all have room to improve.