Stupid Filter

It’s time to fight back. Are you tired of reading useless, inane, and asinine comments? It bothers me how many stupid people read, write, and post on the internet. If you feel the same way, and want an worthwhile internet experience, then look no further for the Stupid Filter has come. Basically, it runs a filter over text on a web page, and blocks out anything it believes to be “stupid”. It has released a Beta, and works surprisingly well.

As taken from the link, Stupid Filter is:

“The solution: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian or similar analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.

Eventually, once the research is completed, we plan to release core engine source code for incorporation into content management systems, blogs, wikis and the like. Additionally, we plan to develop a fully implemented Firefox plugin and a WordPress plugin.”

Sounds too good to be true? I guess we will have to wait and find out.