The Stupid Filter, the end of stupid on the interw3bz

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Internet veterans have long complained about the steady erosion of civility -- and worse, intelligence -- in online discourse. Initially the phenomenon seemed to be a seasonal disorder. It occurred every September when freshmen showed up for college and went online. Tasting for the first time the freedom and power of the Internet, the newbies would behave like a bunch of drunken fraternity pledges, filling electronic bulletin boards with puerile remarks until the upperclassmen could whip them into shape.

Things took a dramatic turn for the worse in 1993, when AOL loosed its tens of thousands -- and then millions -- of users onto the Net. The event came to be known as the Endless September, and true to its name, it continues to this day.

It's a serious problem. Fools and bandwidth hogs have a way of driving traffic away from the most successful online destinations, a phenomenon that could ruin the emerging social networks and user-generated aggregators like Digg.

But there's still hope for intelligent life on the Internet. A team of software developers is hard at work on a "stupid filter" that promises to do to idiotic online comments what a spam filter does to junk and unwanted e-mail: put it in a place where it can't hurt anyone anymore.
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..HL2.net to become a ghost town?


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fort...12/100954554/index.htm?postversion=2007110712
 
I want to give this guy a nobel prize.
 
i think the letter Z should be banned from message boards. Dont azk why either cuz im not gunna tellz you...


ugh...i hate that
 
The Facepunch forums already have a stoopid filter, where you have smartness (that's an actual word according to the Firefox dictionary) points and lose points every time you use certain words or phrases and you get autobanned at a certain level.
 
There ought to be a forum that requires perfect spelling and punctuation in order to post.
 
please god let this be real and work pretty much as intended. if only they can get it to work on morons that ask things like "are you a pirate?", "why wont my 10 year old pc run crysis?", or "my pc keeps crashing and says my drivers are too old. should i update them?" etc. its a pipe-dream, i know.
 
Tyguy said:
i think the letter Z should be banned from message boards. Dont azk why either cuz im not gunna tellz you...


ugh...i hate that
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And anyone who spells words wrongly... ON PURPOSE!

Sometimes, shortening of words can lead to efficiency. However, it wouldn't be the case on an online forum where multiple people have to read it. Thus translation back from the originally coded text would become much, much slower than writing out a properly structured response in full, eloquent English.

And anyone who spells a word incorrectly, on purpose, with no advantage to the efficiency of writing it should be shot.
i.e. mi.
Why the hell would any sane person spell a perfectly reasonable word like "my" wrongly, on purpose?? It has no advantage whatsoever!

True, this would result in the death of my 15 year old brother, but that is a risk I'm willing to take. And it does appear he seems to be maturing somewhat.

I could go on forever about how crap not skelling things correctly and missin out the ends of words without so much as a hyphonation, and how utterly retarded todays teenagers are, thinking it "kwl" and suchlike to spell perfectly sane words insanely!

I repeat myself. They should be shot.

Sadly, I believe that my hatred at ignorant/arrogant/young people is hypocritcal, and that my own hatred is itself ignorant. I myself was once (only a few years ago now) such a "Stupid". As such, I have learnt that no matter how much you speak to young teenagers, they cannot change. No matter how much I attempt to explain to my younger brother how immature he is, I know that he won't learn, and he would only be able to understand this from experience, and thus maturing himself.

Personally, I wish, so badly, that someone had come up with an adequate method of putting teenagers, such as myself, in their place, and teaching them how insignificant they are. However arrogant that sounds, I understand now that myself, at that age, was as insignificant as I claim, and even know, I know myself to be insignificant compared with older, more experienced people. The only difference is: I realise this, and as such, I do not attempt to bestow upon myself a feeling of superiority over those with greater knowledge and maturity.

Oh, and people should be forced to use a spell checker whenever submitting a reply. And if they wish to send a word not in the dictionary, they should be forced to enter a code similar to that used for bot-protection.

Furthermore, anyone who thinks they're funny should be shot. And such people that say "LOLZ", "ROFL" or "OMG" as anything other than a joke at those inferior enough to use these terms seriously.

/hatred

I fully support said filter, and hope that places such as Half-Life 2 can be made into a safe-haven for the sensible, logic and mature.

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CptStern said:
..HL2.net to become a ghost town?
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I don't believe the stupidity on this forum is that high, if present at all. Any apparent stupidity is often a joke at the "Stupids" or simply a "Sensible" not thinking.

CptStern said:
_____ with StupidFilter
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Ditto.
 
CptStern said:
BANG ...bang, bang.


:E
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They were there for drama :p

Edit: And irony

Edit Edit: And I specifically said only people who do it purposefully without any advantage.
Mine had the advantage of sweet irony :D
 
Man, I'd be one of the only people around HL2.net :smoking:

I wholeheartedly support the internet for even the dumb though. Everybody, no matter if they are rich, poor, smart, stupid, man, dog should be able to enjoy the beauty of this series of tubes.
 
Raziaar said:
Man, I'd be one of the only people around HL2.net :smoking:

I wholeheartedly support the internet for even the dumb though. Everybody, no matter if they are rich, poor, smart, stupid, man, dog should be able to enjoy the beauty of this series of tubes.
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I disagree, I think the ability for a person to be online should be paralleled with his ability to complete even the most basic human functions.
 
Tyguy said:
I disagree, I think the ability for a person to be online should be paralleled with his ability to complete even the most basic human functions.
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Well if they can't complete even the most basic human functions, they wouldn't be accessing the internet, now would they?
 
Raziaar said:
Well if they can't complete even the most basic human functions, they wouldn't be accessing the internet, now would they?
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I knew a guy who peed into a bag/shit into a cup, and he still surfed the net


^- true story
 
CptStern said:
I knew a guy who peed into a bag/shit into a cup, and he still surfed the net


^- true story
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That doesn't say anything other than the fact he probably suffers from mental issues.
 
no ...it says a lot about the fact that he has to pee into a bag/shit into a cup


physical =/= mental handicaps
 
Tyguy said:
I disagree, I think the ability for a person to be online should be paralleled with his ability to complete even the most basic human functions.
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Everyone should have to fill in a form and complete a test.

I believe the first question should be something along the lines of "Are you a Stupid? Please answer yes."

CptStern said:
I knew a guy who peed into a bag/shit into a cup, and he still surfed the net


^- true story
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Saying "true story" makes it sound less plausable, for some bizzare reason :p
 
cool, i also endorse this!

i'm proud to say i never resorted to internet slang...it's hard for me to even type LOL...it feels so unnatural...but i agree that it is often (when you don't want to spend too much time writing) the perfect word to describe something funny...i say LOL shouldn't be banned.
 
Druckles said:
Saying "true story" makes it sound less plausable, for some bizzare reason :p
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would a pic help? ;)

bag.jpg
 
jverne said:
cool, i also endorse this!

i'm proud to say i never resorted to internet slang...it's hard for me to even type LOL...it feels so unnatural...but i agree that it is often (when you don't want to spend too much time writing) the perfect word to describe something funny...i say LOL shouldn't be banned.
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*banned*

CptStern said:
would a pic help? ;)

bag.jpg
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No, now I just wonder how you got the picture so fast...
 
CptStern said:
no ...it says a lot about the fact that he has to pee into a bag/shit into a cup


physical =/= mental handicaps
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Well I'm sorry if the way you word it sounds like the guy has a mental instability like we've heard of time before when people shit and piss into jars/bags and store them around. Like that one guy who trapped himself in his home doing that.
 
Raziaar said:
Well I'm sorry if the way you word it sounds like the guy has a mental instability like we've heard of time before when people shit and piss into jars/bags and store them around. Like that one guy who trapped himself in his home doing that.
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Heard story not. Link send to us you must.
 
PvtRyan said:
Ironically, CptStern would be the first to go then.
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What the... Oh wait, hey I didn't write that!

See, I'm not the only one who makes cracks at CptStern.
 
I don't endorse this! :O

What would happen to RJMC and his awesome jokes? D: D:
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooo


/krynn fades away
 
Pesmerga said:
There ought to be a forum that requires perfect spelling and punctuation in order to post.
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Some forums already employ an obligatory spellcheck before you post your post.

:E Anyway, what does the stupid filter consist of?
 
onoes lol!1 where wil i goe??

gurls dun knoe how 2 tipe :)
 
This fails for foreign people who are still learning English.

Also, wake me up when september ends. :bonce:
 
A stupid filter, to me, sounds insanely stupid. What makes you better than the next guy just because you write prettier? Sure there are lots of idiot manners on the internet, the ones that annoy me the most are 4chan injokes being endlessly perpetuated and really, really random "humor" (rape in every sentence etc).

Shortening down stuff can really help, ignoring capital letters etc doesn't really matter imho. Language is not a set thing, a language is nothing without people using it and loosening it, slang, shortening etc. The language you percieve as correct is slang of the previous generation's language.

It's all about conveying the message, as long as you do that, fine by me.
 
CrazyHarij said:
A stupid filter, to me, sounds insanely stupid. What makes you better than the next guy just because you write prettier? Sure there are lots of idiot manners on the internet, the ones that annoy me the most are 4chan injokes being endlessly perpetuated and really, really random "humor" (rape in every sentence etc).

Shortening down stuff can really help, ignoring capital letters etc doesn't really matter imho. Language is not a set thing, a language is nothing without people using it and loosening it, slang, shortening etc. The language you percieve as correct is slang of the previous generation's language.

It's all about conveying the message, as long as you do that, fine by me.
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Punctuation and capitalization are there for a reason, namely to make the message that you're trying to convey stronger and clearer. If you don't want to use it, fine but I won't read those posts. There are a lot of ways to maim a text while still preserving the information, but it makes it harder to read. You say the most important thing is to convey the message, well: that's what punctuation and capitalization help you with. You're just shooting yourself in the foot by not using it and as a result you lose a lot of credibility in my eyes.

Also:
punctuation-is-powerful.jpg
 
If punctuation is so powerful, how come I can kick it's ass! *rips piece of paper with writing* YES!


As for the spell check thing - Isn't there one built into Firefox? Whenever I type a wrong word, it gets a red line under it, I right-click, and there is a list of words it could be... Helps me alot. (notice any misspelled words in this post?). Sadly, it doesn't help grammar.
 
Punctuation and capitalization are there for a reason, namely to make the message that you're trying to convey stronger and clearer. If you don't want to use it, fine but I won't read those posts. There are a lot of ways to maim a text while still preserving the information, but it makes it harder to read. You say the most important thing is to convey the message, well: that's what punctuation and capitalization help you with. You're just shooting yourself in the foot by not using it and as a result you lose a lot of credibility in my eyes.
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Shit; you won't read my post if I don't use that stuff. You rip my heart apart man. Everyone doesn't have the purpose to convince people about their opinions, but for the sake of it, honestly, you're really narrowminded if you let that affect your perception. Alot of people have great ideas despite lack of the academic language to convey it in the most accurately percieved way. You appear way too serious to have any interesting or new input in a discussion
 
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