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mourner / bullshit.js

A bookmarklet for translating marketing speak into human-readable text. :poop:
https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/
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Weighted bullshit assessment #6

Open calvinmetcalf opened 11 years ago

calvinmetcalf commented 11 years ago

moved from #1

Could add a point value to words, or just put them in groups with the same bullshit level, and modify the bs value based on the proximity to other bullshit words i.e. with a threshold of 1, 'monetize' might have 1.2 and always be bullshit, but 'functionality' 0.8 so not bullshit but if 3 words away from 'empowerment', 0.8 then bullshit, 0.8+(0.8/3)=1.07.

The easy way would just have a couple lists instead of the one list of bullshit words, the always bullshit valued at 1.2, the could be bullshit at 0.8 etc.

mourner commented 11 years ago

The most simple approach I guess would be to separate the list into sure-fire bullshit and everything else, and only mark words from the second list if a particular threshold of words detected with the first one reached.

elenalape commented 4 years ago

Any updates? Would love to see an improvement on this, finally @mourner @calvinmetcalf.