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by aetherson 2619 days ago
No problem. By the way, another thing that seems like it maybe departs from the intuition of human-understanding of negative sentiment versus the machine scoring: I notice that almost all of the highly negatively rated comments that it's flagged -- both mine and others -- are relatively short.

I know that there are multi-paragraph laments about how dumb other people are or whatever on HN. In general, those strike me as seeming more salty than even deeply negative one-sentence putdowns. Like, sure, "Javascript is awful" is clearly negative sentiment. But spilling a few hundred words on the topic of "Javascript is awful" is surely more so?

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That is interesting. I"ll have to explore that correlation and make sure that we have a good baseline comparison for the v2.0 model.

Thanks!