December 11, 2007

Stupid filter on its way

It’s about time that something like this came along, working on the same principles as the Spam filters use, this piece of open source brilliance will detect any stupidness that appears on a web page and will grade it to certain degrees.

Exactly what the criteria is for stupid writing is not really known, it will only work in English, and so we must take that as being US English, which will probably grade all UK sites as stupid to varying degrees.

This software will probably be used initially on sites that allow comments, as these can sometimes be misleading or rude to say the least. It is suggested that if someone comments on a product or posting they may get a prompt if there is a serious error.

Source [tfot]