All this will do is have folks who lean one way highlight the other as being non-objective. That's why political stories on Yahoo!, for instance, tend to get 2-3 stars constantly - people who agree give 5s, and those who hate, give 1s. - Louis Gray

@LouisGray the parallel you draw between SpinSpotter and rating the entire story on Yahoo seems a bit off. SpinSpotter forces the user to flag certain words as spin, versus not liking the conclusion (or components) of the article and voting down the entire piece. Regardless, SpinSpotter will need tons of users for it to be at all useful. Not sure it scales on UGC alone. - Christian Anderson