Friday, 16. November 2007, 02:37:57
As you may know by now, there are some guys who want to fight stupidity on the internet with technology. Therefore they started a project called stupidfilter on
http://stupidfilter.org .
They are gathering mostly youtube comments as a source of internetstupidity, which the put through some automated filtering and human moderation. Though the idea sounds a bit stupid in itself again, it's no absolutely uninteresting and i would really like to know what will come out of it in the end.
Talking about stupidity: if you want to become a moderator for them you have to take a test, which is so easy, that even i can pass it. Funny fact: you don't have to put in a name or email-address to continue, so they seem a bit mentally challenged themselve

I could be wrong here of course and it's all part of their evil plan.
Talking about evil plans, just one night before i read about their plan i thought about something like that as well but threw that idea quickly in the big garbage can in my mind.
Another stupid idea i came up with long long time ago is now being adapted by some japanese people...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2209957,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=technology .
Obviously i am not the only one with such useless ideas, but other people are actually thinking that those are great ideas. Maybe i should sell my stupid thoughts somehow, there must be some way of gaining profit in this.
The idea of melody roads was abandoned by my friends and me pretty fast, as we came to think, that hearing the same song over and over might get annoying.
Back to stupidfilter:
The project is currently only for the english language, but i as a german citizen suffer much more from the stupidity of fellow german kids (computers are just to easy to operator nowadays, if we would abandon our mice and went back to keyboard-only control we could get rid of so much stupidity :> ).
So i will see how much i can follow my own little project, to get rid of a lot of stupidity i encounter daily in a onlinecommunity which i joined because of my brethren and some of my friends.
For now i created a 31 Mb big copy of the forum posts and created a simple search engine for fun.
Now i will have to think about how i can rate the posts by spelling and writing style.
After that being done i will be able to give ratings to users based on their posts, which will then allow me to filter out everyone who is below a certain rate.
Another funny idea would be to take my own points, use that as normal and rate everyones iq, assuming, that i myself had 100 iq points.
Absolutely unscientific and stupid, but people with ratings near to my own one would possibly worth taking a look at.
If you are interested to search forum posts for stupidity you should look there, as it currently is working:
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~dduenker/cgi-bin/sucker.cgiWho know though for how long.