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Mar 17, 2022 at 14:46 comment added Scortchi "Let's explore space" - "Er ... do you have a rocket-ship?" - "I have a trampoline" - "Let's go to the pub". It's more like that. I don't believe you've made a good prima facie case that grammatical features would be of much use for auto-flagging comments, compared to obvious ones like vocabulary, for the reasons I give - which are of course themselves only prima facie reasons. I don't contest that "research might reveal something there we could learn from"; but that's not a strong claim.
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Mar 17, 2022 at 6:48 comment added Jesse I don't understand the thinking that the statement "Let's explore space" could mean "Everyone burn your houses if you don't live on the USS Enterprise D". I think questions about possible progress inherently make us imagine the worst, then we react as if our imaginations aren't imaginary.
Mar 17, 2022 at 6:47 comment added Jesse My point exactly! So, as AI writers work to take the grunt work load off of mods, they could identify which may need moderator attention by grammatical patterns, not just a list of "unfriendly phrases". Research might reveal something there we could learn from.
Mar 17, 2022 at 6:43 comment added Scortchi I understand, but such phrases are of the kind people commonly write in comments too. I just didn't have to search too far for examples of what you might call rhetorical imperatives - that aren't exactly issuing orders.
Mar 17, 2022 at 3:21 comment added Jesse I don't say this to be rude because I have done the same thing. I'm looking for ways to improve. My above comment could have been written by an AI and delivered before the Answer was posted. Such a feature would have saved me from many great embarrassments in the past.
Mar 17, 2022 at 2:36 comment added Jesse It's about comments, not questions or answers, right there in the title. Applying it to questions or answers is a later possibility, described in the closing sentence.
Mar 16, 2022 at 23:45 history answered Scortchi CC BY-SA 4.0