Yes please. People trying to discuss those topics on here makes me come back less. It’s probably the worst part of the site for me overall.
(I'm already playing with wrapping it so that probably isn't hard to add)
I have filtered a lot of politics on twitter by blocking prominent politicians and mute words.
Does such a broad brush add to the discussion?
Disagreement can be healthy. I'd say the varied political and philosophical perspectives of HN and Slashdot contributed a lot to changing my worldview. (Hopefully for the better, though we're all still learning.)
Never have I found a political comment section here that helped me emerge enlightened. I tried for years, eventually gave up and I'm objectively feeling better because of it.
Maybe something like a naive bayes [0] will work? I'm not sure if it's the best dataset. I could make my own dataset by just looking at how many removed comments there are :P
I haven't implemented a classifier before so it may take me a few days. If you'd like to be notified when it's actually working send me an email at info@{the site name}
[0] - https://www.kaggle.com/kinguistics/classifying-news-headline...