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Comment by Nasrudith | Hacker News Reader

It is funny how polite mentions of crashes are regarded so negatively by it compared to messages. Now I wonder what can be said to get an overwhelmingly positive sentiment while being not just rude but downright horrifying messages. Say "I hope you enjoy eating your family."

Reminds me of the one account of an essay question grading program's unique flaw where it scored higher with every mention of orangutans with no regard to relevance or possibily even grammar.

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Do you have a source on the orangutan grader? That sounds like an hilarious read.

Sadly it was a while ago - the closest I could find was a MIT one mentioning essay graders judging by length and connective words allowing for properly structured nonsense to be judged as good writing.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2013/may/2...

I guess orangutan is a sufficiently long word that replacing most nouns with it would improve your score.

I wrote another sentiment analysis tool. https://goo.gl/UoVo51

Ran it across your comment with these results:

Sentiment Analysis: This text is: positive (+0.5)

funnyregardedcrashespolitewonderoverwhelminglyhorrifyingrudepositiveenjoyflawregard The full range of sentiments in this text is: positive 0.25, trust 0.178571428571429, surprise 0.142857142857143, anticipation 0.107142857142857, joy 0.107142857142857, sadness 0.0714285714285714, negative 0.0714285714285714, fear 0.0357142857142857, anger 0, disgust 0,

The grading program may have been written by a librarian.

Of course, no one would ever look too far into the matter.

  We’ve got the only librarian who can rip off your arm with his leg. People respect that.

When people copy and paste error messages into the comments, they usually contain stuff like "kill", "fatal" or "stopped" which the analysis thinks is negative

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