The end of the Internet as we know it?

[BlackShanglan]

Software engineers told Fortune magazine in November that they are constructing a filter to eliminate stupid messages to online forums and bulletin boards. Lead researcher Gabriel Ortiz said his team had compiled a database of idiotic comments and that the new software would detect unintelligible remarks and either alert the writer to fix them or divert the message to the recipient's "junk mail." Easy dumb messages to filter: those with the tacky, immature repetition of a closing consonant, e.g., "That thing is amazinggggg!!!" More difficult: how to treat sarcasm and irony, in that smart writers sometimes deliberately use dumb statements to mock other writers.

[CNNMoney-Fortune, 11-7-07]

No word yet on whether the filter scans for hoofprints.

 

[Stella_Omega]

No word yet on whether the filter scans for hoofprints.

Omigod WTF? We're all dooommedddd!!!

 

[elsol]

Any bets that any version of.... "Ayn Rand said" gets filtered.

 

[English Lady]

Not a one of my messags will go through first time! I'm all kinds of British and my typing sucks!


for my favourite horsey!

 

[Huckleman2000]

Wouldn't it be so much simpler to just filter the stupid posters?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Wouldn't it be so much simpler to just filter the stupid posters?

yes.

 

[Huckleman2000]

yes.

*/Huckleman slaps Stella_Omega around with a trout/*

 

[starrkers]

*/Huckleman slaps Stella_Omega around with a trout/*

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/smilies/herring.gif

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

HUCK

If THAT happens, you'll vanish like a fart in a gale...everywhere.

 

[starrkers]

HUCK

If THAT happens, you'll vanish like a fart in a gale...everywhere.

Won't we all?

 

[oggbashan]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/smilies/herring.gif

That's not a trout. It's a red herring!

Og

 

[rgraham666]

Um. Define 'idiotic'.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Um. Define 'idiotic'.

Did somebody call my name?

 

[rgraham666]

Did somebody call my name?

I'd categorize you as a 'wildly amusing flibbertigibbet'. That takes talent and intelligence.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I define 'idiotic' as conduct or thought that is exclusively characteristic of the bottom 2% of humanity.

 

[Guest]

That's not a trout. It's a red herring!

Og

Weren't the romans fond of punishing with those?

 

[gauchecritic]

I define 'idiotic' as conduct or thought that is exclusively characteristic of the bottom 2% of humanity.

You just had to make it political, didn't you?

I just hope the filter includes misspellings of words like colour and centre.

and txt spk. esp. txt spk. You idle, idle bastards.

 

[Liar]

Omigod WTF? We're all dooommedddd!!!

We're all dommed?

By who?

 

[Stella_Omega]

*/Huckleman slaps Stella_Omega around with a trout/*

Mmm, trout for lunch!

 

[sr71plt]

I found the end of the Internet once. It was in the lobby of the Holiday Inn in Madras, India, between a cow and a tea cart.

 

[rgraham666]

Was there a pot of gold?

 

[Guest]

I'd never get to 1000 posts then.

Maharat

 

[glynndah]

Hey, we're all writers here. We should be able to come up with all sorts of misspellings and idiotic comments the filter and its creators have never heard of. Everyone just needs to put some effort into this.

 

[CharleyH]

Omigod WTF? We're all dooommedddd!!!

I second this but louder: DOOMED!

Or was that dommed?

 

[sr71plt]

Was there a pot of gold?

No, a mound of cow flop.