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nurumaik11/21/20242 repliesview on HN

Just manually review top K websites and ban such garbage?

Sometimes dumb, bruteforce and biased solution can work way better than any automation you can come up with


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NelsonMinar11/21/2024

I think that'd be a good approach. There was an idea in that time that everything had to be algorithmic, that hand-ranking or singling out individual sites was a bad idea. Ie: tweak a generic algorithm and then test what it does to top garbage sites, don't just penalize the site directly. I think that's not a bad principle but in practice it didn't seem to work well.

dotancohen11/21/2024

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