Software that checks for potential misunderstandings in emails?! My dream retroactively came true!

[matt1993]

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[pathvain_aelien]

Interesting. But you have been doing fine on your own, even if you don't think so. :)

[matt1993]

Maybe I have been now, but I wasn't when this article was written (which was published on July 26, 2010 - over a year before the Forbidden Comment Threads and a mere day or two after I offended a bunch of people in suggestions, for starters).

For a while (in 2010-2013 most likely), I'd been wanting to write a program that would analyze an entry or comment before I post it and predict how likely I am to regret it (based on similarities to previous entries/comments that I either did or didn't regret), but I never started it because I didn't have a lot of free time and I only had a really vague idea of where to start. I'm glad someone else apparently made the same thing, even if it was years ago and for emails instead of LJ posts. :)

[pathvain_aelien]

You were then, too. Everyone regrets things they've said, all the time.