Re: The Harrop Index [was Re: Jon Harrop]

Ken Tilton wrote:
The best part is, knowing this does not help. And this is why g*d created killfiles. That drops your exposure to others quoting him. Still a challenge. But it puts pressure on the Harrop species that grows ineluctably until the species winks out (only to return, for as some brilliant wag once observed, "Liars need good memories. Trolls need NG readers with bad ones.").

Too bad that newsreader clients and their kill-files haven't been getting as much attention as e-mail clients and their spam filters.

ps. Trick #2: Counting a behavior changes it. I am not smart like you guys. Can someone write the code to print daily/cumulative totals? The columns should be: count contributed to Harrop thread, count direct replies to Harrop, count direct replies by Harrop to them, and then a weighted sucker-score, with (I think) each of those having increasing weight (1-2-4?). (If Harrop responds directly to you, he has sensed a fresh blood vein.) Problem. Harrop joins random threads. OK, those are not harropthreads, so just count direct replies /to/ harrop (but weight those 4).

Other ideas for the Harrop Index welcome. k

I'd be willing to contribute money to an effort to implement a newsreader with a Harrop-index kill-file filter. It would have to use the concept of a Harrop-index to sort signal from noise. Extra points would, of course, go to anyone implementing this Harrop-killer app in OCaml or even F# itself. Super extra points if it escorted Harrop to /dev/null faster than a competing lisp implementation. "I just blew your mind" extra points if Harrop himself were to write it. Of course, one would have to generalize it so that it would be useful for *plonk*ing other trolls on the head, too.

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I suppose it would also be good to integrate something like this with other chaff threshing techniques. Many-to-many communication networks which include some kind of user ranking system come to mind. Of course, this would probably be just another factor in calculating the Harrop-index.

Kenny, your a genius! Now just whip one up with Cells somehow. Or get the Open Source Fairy to do it. Or maybe Tim Bradshaw can write a lisp version in all the free time he gains from not wasting time on usenet. Then, we bet Harrop that he can't write one of these here new fangled things in OCaml and do a better job at it than this super awesome lisp version. I'd do it in all the free time I have from flirting with insomnia but I'm lazy and stupid, not like that clever Harrop. I bet he could write one before any of our lisp ray tracers finished rendering a simple gray scale image.
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