{"id":905,"date":"2007-11-13T06:17:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/13\/the-next-logical-step-in-evolu\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T06:17:31","slug":"the-next-logical-step-in-evolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/13\/the-next-logical-step-in-evolu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Logical Step in Evolution of the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>StupidFilter was conceived out of necessity. Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise. The advent of user-driven web content has compounded the matter yet further, straining our tolerance to the breaking point<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t understand what we&#8217;re talking about, just move along, nothing to see here&#8230;For the rest of you..<!--more-->The Project to End Stupidity Online is an OpenSource Project dedicated to the noble goal of ending stupidity on line. The reference to Eternal September is a little nuanced and complicated, so if you don&#8217;t already know what it is, maybe you shouldn&#8217;t know.  Google it. If you can handle that.The main product of PESO is the StupidFilter Project.  &#8220;Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.&#8221;Here is a sampling of questions from the project&#8217;s FAQ:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How are you going to manage to recognize stupidity programmatically?<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t filtering stupidity elitist?<\/li>\n<li>How do you rate stupidity?<\/li>\n<li>I looked at some of the results from the Random Stupidity page, and they don&#8217;t seem that stupid to me; what gives?<\/li>\n<ul>What a bunch of stupid questions.  But no worries.  Once StupidFilter is in place we&#8217;ll have no more of that.If you don&#8217;t already know what is going on, I suppose you could click <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidfilter.org\/main\/\">here<\/a> (with your mouse) and see if you understand the information on the web site that will then open up in your browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StupidFilter was conceived out of necessity. Too long have we suffered in silence under the tyranny of idiocy. In the beginning, the internet was a place where one could communicate intelligently with similarly erudite people. Then, Eternal September hit and we were lost in the noise. The advent of user-driven web content has compounded the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/13\/the-next-logical-step-in-evolu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Next Logical Step in Evolution of the Web<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-eB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}