Advanced Scripts to make life better

I was inspired by a script I found on userscripts today. The script makes it easy to block comments from users on Matt Cutt’s blog. I got to thinking, that’s great for when Im reading Matt Cutt’s blog but what about when Im reading someone else blog? Or maybe another website?

Introducing an Advanced Script

After writing a script to create free energy and another one to automagically fill up my bank account with other people’s money I figured I could write a really great script to filter out stupid comments.

First I started off with a black list of words, “duh”, “as anybody knows”, “nazis” and “obviously you haven’t” all made the top of the list. Then I built a comparison engine to compare the surrounding content with related words in google scholar and wikipedia. I figure if someone said it in google scholar and wikipedia it must be awesome good.

After comparing the content on the page the comparison engine checks to see if anyone has ever said something similar in youtube comments.

All this data is fed as data into SETI@Home (getting rid of comment spam is probably more important that finding white noise) and a detailed report is filed and using all the data along with some more trade secret variables each comment is given a point value, 1 being absolutely important and 10 being a comment on youtube absolute drivel.

The user then sets their tolerance ratio and is free to speedily read through comments.

But there was a problem

Now, I’m opening up development to the community because I need help. My system, awesome as it is, seems to work a little too well. All the comments on digg are flagged at a 10, user forums are desolate wastelands with few surviving comments. Actually, the script also appears to flag all the content on livejournal and if you try to goto myspace all you get is a blank page!

The only sites that do seem to work correctly are slashdot and any site not in english. Oh, except no sites in French have been left unblocked.

My design appears to be perfect and I can’t find out what’s wrong. I posted on a development forum about my problem but no one responded…or they did and the script blocked them. I don’t know.

I’ll release the code shortly to see if making this project open source can bring it to completion.