The "War on Trolls"
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Now google and wikipedia are teaming up to work on a set of algorithms to detect personal attacks and other nastygrams in an effort to comprehend such posts and effect some kind of policing of the comment threads embedded in forum type apps.
While I certainly view trolling users who add nothing to the substance of any site as cyberslugs I absolutely do believe in calling out the various morons proliferating stupidity and misinformation by any means necessary.
This in conjunction with freedom of speech has me somewhat at odds with my own feelings regarding the efficacy of this particular project from a value added perspective and it has been my experience that various human monitors are virtually worthless in this regard.
I project the AI stuff to be much worse given it's total lack of humanity. The subtle nuances of setting an idiot straight are a valuable commodity in the world today particularly in light of our generation of burger flipper's children coming to the forefront of the marketplace with all their inability to spell and define the terms they use while communicating their nothingness.
Well, though google was never going to glean any monies from me anyway, I just tore up the check I was sending to wikipedia.
Discernment is decidedly missing from the crap I've been reading in the anti-troll codifications under consideration.