Comment by k-mcgrady | Hacker News Reader

Comment by k-mcgrady | Hacker News Reader

So my worst comment included a smiley face...

"Ah ok. I looked at it more as something you force on your co-workers :)"

Looks like 'ah' implies negativity to the algorithms driving this.

Edit: It's also only pulling your 50 most recent comments by default. That covers about the last two weeks for me and is probably why it isn't very accurate. 50 comments is a very small dataset to work from. The other option it gives is 50 oldest comments - again not very representative for someone who has been commenting regularly for 1301 days. I try to keep my comments useful but I know for a fact I've gotten into emotional debates in the last 4 years in which I was negative/stupid/hating. Maybe it's not possible but I would suggest pulling a random sample of 100-200 comments for more accurate data.

Great idea! I'll make another option that does exactly this. I think it's potentially a better way to think about it. Since I have to make an individual call for each comment it gets pretty hairy past 50 but I'm sure I can do it differently in the future. I tried to not put a limit on it at first and realized that @pg has something like 13,000 comments... lol. I could also just pull back every user's comments and run them through the model off line and update it every night. I just need a list of every user :)

My most negative comment also had a simley face, and can totally see that it's quite negative without it. It's pretty terse and sharp sounding.

*"Fitting all that into 7 minutes will likely lead to injury for someone who is in the audience for any kind of short N minute workout, IMO. I concur with your general sentiment and good intentions though. :)"

I wrote this a couple days ago though, and am a bit miffed because I would have expected to have written a more acerbic comment sometime in the past.

Refreshing, isn't it? It give us a semi-sensible insight on how others may perceive our comments. One of the biggest things I learnt in Australia is never to use irony when you're a foreigner. People either wonder whether you said what you intended to say or it delays their understanding of the joke, if there was any. It's sad, because English coworkers love this kind of humour and they're excellent at not smiling when they do it.

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