Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
> You out to add an annotation as to how many articles were dropped
> because of being from trolls.
The posts are dropped by leafnode (filter), not merely discounted by the
stats script. IOW the posts just aren't there, so to tally the drops I'd
need to turn on verbose logging on fetchnews, parse the drops from the
cron logs, then add the manual drops (by subject) that I do when pruning
the Astroturfing.
It's doable, but I'm not sure I can be arsed.
The easiest way would be to not filter with leafnode at all, and just
count the Trolls, but that brings us back to where we were before, with
the stats post regurgitating the Trolls' propaganda (it wouldn't be
Troll-Free any more).
Here's a taste of what's "missing":
^Subject:.*Who .seriously. uses Linux for .serious. work
^Subject:.*Raylopez
^Subject:.*Panasonic recommends Windows
^Subject:.*really worried about linux
^Subject:.*GayUbuntu
^Subject:.*How to .advocate.. Linux
^Subject:.*Linux crashes all the time
^Subject:.*Still awaiting explanation . Linux
^Subject:.*Linux Will Destroy Your Hardware
^Subject:.*Linux freezes all the time
^Subject:.*lame smelly donkey
^Subject:.*Linux slop
^Subject:.*Linux crud
> Those lice have been infesting COLA pretty heavily.
Actually that motzarella/dizum filter plus killing MS agents seems to
take care of most of them, and there don't seem to be many taking the
Troll's bait, so I've had to do almost no manual pruning at all this week.
> Or should we call them...? (see sig)
Prigs and madmen ... maybe.
Shills ... definitely.
Anyway, if anyone really wants Troll-infested stats, they're free to do
it themselves:
http://slated.org/files/ngstats.pl
http://slated.org/files/colastats.data
As for counting the drops ... I'll play around with it and see.
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K.
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