Bayes for blog comment moderation?
This is really a call for arms to any Perl hackers with serious amounts of hybris out there: I recently installed the latest POPFile from CVS in order to help in auto-scoring messages on Usenet. With great results, I might add. It already seems near perfect at anticipating what I’ll find interesting to read or not, and.
Mark Pilgrim is writing about a troll in Sam Ruby’s comment system, and I’m just wondering: couldn’t Naive Bayesian filtering be used to automoderate weblog comments?
Update: Apparently, Ben Hammersley and Jim Hughes are thinking along the same lines as I am.
Comments
Comment from Kevin W on 2003-07-12 14:55
How do you use POPfile for nntp? I thought it was POP3 only.
Comment from Arve on 2003-07-12 15:17
I am using the latest development version, the one that eventually will be named 0.20.0.
If you are unfamiliar with CVS, there are some basic instructions here. If you are a windows user, and would like a client, you can either download and install Cygwin - or you can install TortoiseCVS - which integrates into the windows shell. TortoiseCVS also has instructions that makes CVS easier to understand.
If you’re unable to download it from CVS, ask me nicely, and I might offer a zip-file for download :-)
Comment from Kevin W on 2003-07-13 13:33
Ah, thanks. I didn’t notice the CVS part.
This discussion has been closed. No further comments may be added.