>It serves no other purpose than to get a link to his own product site
You've simply made this up. The poster (gleuschk) may have some undetectable connection to the product (just like you or I may have one), but it's the only post that he/she ever made about it. Judging by a skim of their thousand comment history on the site, what gleuschk seems to have is an interest in mathematics.
You could have figured that out with a click, though. Does the fact that you didn't bother make your comments inane enough to be filtered off of the internet as a spamlink for metafilter? Can you detect that with an algorithm?
Thanks for the link, though. I remember seeing that shape on a spam segment of a documentary on PBS a number of years ago, and it was nice to be reminded of it.
edit: From your examples of bad pages on metafilter, I know that I don't want you vetting what is or isn't quality content on the internet, yet I still trust you more than some associative algorithm.
You've simply made this up. The poster (gleuschk) may have some undetectable connection to the product (just like you or I may have one), but it's the only post that he/she ever made about it. Judging by a skim of their thousand comment history on the site, what gleuschk seems to have is an interest in mathematics.
http://www.metafilter.com/user/2666
You could have figured that out with a click, though. Does the fact that you didn't bother make your comments inane enough to be filtered off of the internet as a spamlink for metafilter? Can you detect that with an algorithm?
Thanks for the link, though. I remember seeing that shape on a spam segment of a documentary on PBS a number of years ago, and it was nice to be reminded of it.
edit: From your examples of bad pages on metafilter, I know that I don't want you vetting what is or isn't quality content on the internet, yet I still trust you more than some associative algorithm.