alt Hacker NewsDoes spam filtering really need a better model? My impression is that the whole game is based on having the best and freshest user-contributed labels.
Does spam filtering really need a better model? My impression is that the whole game is based on having the best and freshest user-contributed labels.
Better models help on the day the spam mutates, before you have fresh labels for the new scam and before spammers can infer from a few test runs which phrasing still slips through. If you need labels for each pivot you're letting them experiment on your users.