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Flame War Detector

 Uses language algorithm to detect heated arguements happening on the internet right now!
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The code would: 1) search message boards all over the Internet for places where two posters alternate post which contain words commonly found in Internet arguments. 2)Once it is established that a flame war is indeed occurring, the code will parse questions contained in the arguments (ie. statements ending in a question mark) and check to see if key words in the question are referenced in subsequent posts by the person the question was addressed to. 3)Using this and other similar evaluation methods, a picture (eg. from flamewarriors dot com) will be ascribed to each participant and a score will be given.

the result will be posted on an aggregator type website.

—fishboner, Apr 25 2009

Flamewarriors.com http://www.flamewarriors.com/
The collection of cartoons referenced in the main text. [jutta, Apr 26 2009]

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       and this does what?
—loonquawl, Apr 26 2009
   

       Entertain. People would compete to get the highest ratings; or, conversely, accuse each other of being flamers, now with computer backing. I could see someone enjoying this.
—jutta, Apr 26 2009
   

       @jutta, sounds like what 21 quest thinks what halfbakery is. . .
—goodmars, Apr 26 2009
   

       I had to bun this. While others would find this invention as a good way to find an argument, I would use this to avoid walking into the middle of one. As soon as I log on to a website, I would like to know which threads contain inflamatory subjects so I can avoid them.
—Jscotty, Apr 26 2009
   

       loon, do you get it now? I know it is not much, but there are more trivial sites which do very well.
—fishboner, Apr 26 2009
   

       I still am at a loss: Consider this excerpt of a flame war, and thell me what would happen to the thread, the posters, and anyone else anything is happening to:   

       A: So Linux sucks, in my opinion. B: Are you a fucking Nazi? A: No, but you are a fucking Nazi! B: lol. omg. YOU SUCK!!11!!   

       [note the question mark, and the repetition of common flaming words]
—loonquawl, Apr 27 2009
   

       loon, this exchange simply would not make the cut. flamewar detector has higher standards than that.
—fishboner, Apr 27 2009
   

       Some sites post a little flame icon next to topics that are determined to be "under fire" by admins or user vote. Since the character of flaming varies by topic and maturity of users the "flame detector" is going to need to look for key sentence structures, cross references, and other patterns (???) using a human identified set of "flame war" references.
—WcW, Apr 27 2009
   

       WcW, yes, an index of strings similar to but much more robust than the mfd section of te help file here would be a good point of departure.
—fishboner, Apr 27 2009
   

       no.
—WcW, Apr 27 2009
   

       next up: dismissive response detector
—fishboner, Apr 27 2009
   

       //key sentence structures//   

       like "lets all" etc.
—fishboner, Apr 30 2009
   


 

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