[DanBC]

Something to turn this into a killer extension would be "Hide comments that use words on my filter list".

Thus, I could chose to hide any comment that used the word FANBOI or fanboy or whatever.

You'd need to include some method for alerting me that there's a comment that I might wish to downvote.

It's a neat project. It's a shame people will pile-on over your unfortunate choice of title here. Your "Important note" on github is pretty clear, I think.

[mwfunk]

Yeah, I suspect all of the comments will either be about why somebody thinks the algorithm is stupid or why they don't think they need a filter on HN or why they think filters in general are stupid or promote groupthink or whatever.

The author seems pretty clear that this was just a programming exercise written for fun and self-education and makes no claims about its perfection.

As a side note, I agree that "fanboy" and all of its permutations is a 99.9% reliable indication of a worthless comment (although such a filter would obviously catch this post :). This is regardless of whether the poster is referring to themselves or someone else or some hypothetical group that they imagine exists somewhere, and regardless of the subject of the fanboyism.

[sergiotapia]

I hope you don't include my comment above in that 'pile-on'. I had no intention of negative criticism on the project or the author; just wanted to give a quick tl;dr of how this library works. Nothing more, nothing less.

@Author: I apologize if it was taken that way.

[DanBC]

Oh no! Your comment was a succinct description of the project. I didn't see your comment as negative in anyway.

[Dewie]

I think I'd filter by phrases such as "orders of magnitude" if the rest of the comment doesn't talk about different kinds of memory access or any other technical subject ("The days when I get up before 6 AM I am orders of magnitude more productive"). It would be more of a cliché filter than inaneness-filter, though.