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RFS: Hacker News without the anecdotal comments

2 points by untilHellbanned ↗ HN
I enjoy HN except for the anecdotal comments of the form, "I think X based on my experience Y, so the solution is X". Myopia degrades the community just as much as the ad hominems do.

Is anyone working on a natural language processing plugin to filter out these low quality, N=1 comments?

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bryanrasmussen
Excuse me but you think anecdotal comments degrade HN based on your dislike of them, so the solutions is a natural language processing plugin to filter them out?

I mean I also think - based on my personal experiences of natural language processing (which are limited) and my readings in the field which are also not as extensive as they could be - that filtering out anecdotal comments (as opposed to low quality comments in general) would be a difficult task - but probably the solution is just to wait a few more years given current rate of progress in the field.

It's just - I think there are problems with this idea.