What algorithm does news.YC use to filter spam?

pg | karma 157316 | avg karma 14.62 · 2007-02-25 09:49:36

Trusted human editors.

danielha | karma 1912 | avg karma 2.01 · 2007-02-25 12:58:45

Humans have too much compassion. We need cold, hard algorithms! Indiscriminating, zero-tolerant machines! ;)

jwecker | karma 1484 | avg karma 3.21 · 2007-02-25 15:05:48

Nice. A network of hierarchical bayes inference machines without a line of code.

jadams | karma 65 | avg karma 1.18 · 2007-02-25 21:32:29

I heard a rumour that each instance is 6MB of source code, alone!

jwecker | karma 1484 | avg karma 3.21 · 2007-02-26 13:51:51+00:00

:)

Ah- I looked it up. It's better than XP anyway http://tmsoft.com/article-genome.html

trevelyan | karma 2937 | avg karma 2.32 · 2007-02-26 18:26:10+00:00

#include <meatrank.h>

joshwa | karma 6849 | avg karma 4.86 · 2007-02-25 21:21:33+00:00

downvotes on articles might help... There are a bunch of posts from an adsense farm that I'd like to flag/downvote.

jwecker | karma 1484 | avg karma 3.21 · 2007-02-25 22:21:08+00:00

Make sure and post this comment in the "Features you want" section if you haven't already. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=363

pg | karma 157316 | avg karma 14.62 · 2007-02-25 22:26:07+00:00

really? which ones?

jwecker | karma 1484 | avg karma 3.21 · 2007-02-25 22:48:59+00:00

can't speak for joshwa, but I thought this one was spammy. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1040