What I really want is an extension to strip out all the political/social stuff and rule breaking content. Could probably just use basic AI sentiment analysis for most of this.
When loading a comment thread, dump the last X comments a user has made through the sentiment analysis pipeline. More than Y% percent of their posts are classified as either political/emotional/social commentary? Strip all their comments out of the HTML before displaying to me, I don't want to even see it.
Same with submissions. If the author submits >= X% political/social commentary links, don't trust those users at all, just strip their submissions out of my results, I don't want to see them. Maybe also just auto strip out the career posters who post a dozen links every day for karma farming or propaganda purposes or whatever they're doing. It's not natural traffic, strip it out.
Same with emotional/irrational debate. Could possibly classify any given comment on a scale of rational to emotional and strip out the comments that are just people ranting and raving about their political/social topic of choice.
Same with the rule around "if it's on mainstream news it probably doesn't belong on HN". Should be insanely easy to just auto-strip out all the submissions that link to mainstream news sites. I don't want to see them.
Maybe also be able to specify keywords of topics that you DO want to see, "engineering", "technology", "science", etc., stuff that actually belongs on HN, and again auto-filter out everything else.
Quite simply, I just want an extension that will strip out all the insane people and political/social content. I just want to see HN content on HN.
When loading a comment thread, dump the last X comments a user has made through the sentiment analysis pipeline. More than Y% percent of their posts are classified as either political/emotional/social commentary? Strip all their comments out of the HTML before displaying to me, I don't want to even see it.
Same with submissions. If the author submits >= X% political/social commentary links, don't trust those users at all, just strip their submissions out of my results, I don't want to see them. Maybe also just auto strip out the career posters who post a dozen links every day for karma farming or propaganda purposes or whatever they're doing. It's not natural traffic, strip it out.
Same with emotional/irrational debate. Could possibly classify any given comment on a scale of rational to emotional and strip out the comments that are just people ranting and raving about their political/social topic of choice.
Same with the rule around "if it's on mainstream news it probably doesn't belong on HN". Should be insanely easy to just auto-strip out all the submissions that link to mainstream news sites. I don't want to see them.
Maybe also be able to specify keywords of topics that you DO want to see, "engineering", "technology", "science", etc., stuff that actually belongs on HN, and again auto-filter out everything else.
Quite simply, I just want an extension that will strip out all the insane people and political/social content. I just want to see HN content on HN.