[ksey3]

Spam and trolling even happens on a physical newspapers/radio/tv/books/magazines. Its just that you have to pay to do it.

The rich/ceremonial/leisure classes have through out history been constantly spamming everyone with whatever shit occurs to their 3 inch brains, because they can afford to buy the largest amount of attention.

To bad there is not enough attention for anything anymore cause production of content is happening at volumes that dwarf Consumption of content.

If 99% of comments and links on HN are not read by anyone, do you think the great geniuses who run HN will tell you that? Whats the use of such systems no one asks. They want to just keep it alive like some dumb engineers in the control room of Jurassic Park after the children are lost and the T Rex is loose.

The platforms, without knowing what the fuck they are building, have made it Free for everyone to Broadcast. So its now not just the rich who are spamming and trolling. Its everyone. For free. All you get is noise. Read the UN Report on the Attention Economy.

One dimensional software engineers now have capability to build and scale systems quickly. Thats the only reason we have these dumb fucking mindless systems wasting everyones time and energy.

[firewolf34]

What I want is a "content condensor" tool. Something OSS and mathematically pure that can just take all the signal, drop the noise, and run some NLP to "condense" the information for me to effectively wade through it. Yes, there's a lot of bullshit content now, but there's also a lot of valid content. To be proficient today, we need to be able to swim effectively through the sea.

What's screwed up right now is we are currently forced to rely on 3rd-parties to filter for us, and they do so often poorly by just dropping content that's not "popular" which results in biased sampling, or worse, they select based on some kind of profit motive. Why can't we own our own "social media algorithm" or something? Why do I have to spend so much time consuming? Give me the IV drip, and filter out the unhealthy portion, please. Ideally, I should be able to trust the filter, too.

[skrebbel]

Spam filter idea: posts with bad interpunction are likely content-free angry ramblings!

[hutzlibu]

Yeah, but in the long run (or very soon), you might have to use grammar misstakes as a captcha, to seperate bots from humans.

[YoshiRulz]

> misstakes > seperate

I see what you did there.

Please never implement that idea though, it would be like the opposite of https://xkcd.com/810.

[hutzlibu]

I am pretty sure, it is already in use.

But of course it would be trivial to modify the llm output, to include random misstakes, if this ever would become a standard way of dealing with bots.

[aleph_minus_one]

> Spam filter idea: posts with bad interpunction are likely content-free angry ramblings!

... or written by non-native speakers.