Isn't filtering stupidity elitist?
I love this line of thinking. 'But what about ME? I might suck but I want to be important too!'
This is a cool idea, but it wouldn't work here for the following reason...
What about ironic uses of 'stupid' diction?
The StupidFilter is blind to irony. Our intent is that one or two instances of 'lol' or 'ur dum' in several paragraphs of otherwise-cogent text won't result in a false positive.
Some of our funniest posts are in this vein.
However, we consider the StupidFilter's irony-ignorance to be a feature, insofar as even if an allegedly smart person makes a short, stupid comment, their smartness doesn't make the comment any less stupid.
And I disagree, ur dum.