Hi Stuart, These are all great ideas and I'm working to implement some of them ASAP. I am also planning on some semi-automated detection algorithms as soon as I can resurrect the "statistics" portion of my brain. The last time that I did any probability stuff was in 1980 or so.
Keep the good ideas coming! Jeff; Stuart Whitmore wrote: >Hi Jeff (and everyone), > >I've looked a few times at the News page on Syndic8.com, and often it >is filled with what looks like postings in spam blogs. Aside from >being an easy way to find feeds to reject, this strikes me as a bad >thing for multiple reasons: First, it helps the spammers by >increasing their exposure. Second, it decreases the value of that >page for Syndic8 users. > >I was thinking it would be really cool if that page was modified so >that it only showed headlines for feeds that meet specific criteria >that should eliminate most or all of the "junk." For example, it >could only display headlines for feeds that were suggested by a >Syndic8 user (i.e., not by a ping or something like that), and maybe >only if that user has a certain number of points -- not something >exorbitant, but maybe 10 or 25. An added feature might be to randomly >select somebody in the top 100 users (point-wise) to "highlight" for a >month with any of their headlines appearing on top (or, that position >could be another revenue source). > >I don't know what changes would be required on the back end for this >to happen, but I wanted to at least get the idea out there to be >kicked around. > >-- >Stuart Whitmore >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.just-stuart.com/ > > > >If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(this will tell it to stop sending you mail) > >To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: >http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join >(here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) > >To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > -- * RSS Feeds: http://www.syndic8.com * Blog: http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/ * Web Services: http://aws.typepad.com * Resume: http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/resume.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
