There's a quip around here that I've found to be generally true;
"If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is 'No.'"
I'm considering filtering on '?' but I expect too many false-positives. But the quip did get me thinking about kws/phrases that generally indicate that the article is soft news. These go beyond the obvious celebrities, games, films, sports, etc. but are trying to predetermine the 'mindset' of the author. Here's some/most of mine. I'd appreciate any you have.
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alert
award
babies
baby
beer
boss
calls
comed
confront
cosplay
custody
dating
day-care
daycare
day care
deal
deals
developer
director
duty
emoti
enforce
estimate
fans
going
heartbreak
hero
homeless
honor
kickst
mayor
offend
offens
photographer
Pope Fra
publisher
raise
rumor
save $
school bus
sleep
social
song
star
suspend
suspici
tease
this week
to know
toddle
today!
trailer
troll
upset
veteran
weekend
your mo
your da
believe
guess
happened
never
next
giveaway
giveaways
Good ones. Keep 'em coming. Bill?
I got into this a year or so ago when I was developing the reader running on my server and ramped up the volume. The ? got me thinking about future tense and how that, almost by definition, could never be hard news. With the ever-increasing penchant for clickbait and/or hyped and/or speculative articles, I've found these do a fair job at culling.
FWIW, Debbie says that only 15% of the gross feed is currently making it past my filter gauntlet. She also says that I need to up my estimate of how many articles I pulling in at the pre-filtered stage to 3k+.
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