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What algorithm does news.YC use to filter spam?
9 points by kf on Feb 25, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Trusted human editors.


Humans have too much compassion. We need cold, hard algorithms! Indiscriminating, zero-tolerant machines! ;)


downvotes on articles might help... There are a bunch of posts from an adsense farm that I'd like to flag/downvote.


Make sure and post this comment in the "Features you want" section if you haven't already. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363


really? which ones?


can't speak for joshwa, but I thought this one was spammy. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1040


Nice. A network of hierarchical bayes inference machines without a line of code.


I heard a rumour that each instance is 6MB of source code, alone!


:)

Ah- I looked it up. It's better than XP anyway http://tmsoft.com/article-genome.html


#include <meatrank.h>




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