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Originally Posted by omk3
Scam?  You mean that people might actually believe that they write like whoever, just because some web script said so? |
No, the scam part is where, after telling you that you write like some great author, they want to publish your books for you. It (had) links to a vanity press trolling for suckers, sort of like (in the US) the "Who's who" books that exist for no purpose other than to sell copies of the list to the people on the list.
(Link is to the site that showed that, but I see that the "I write like" site has changed it's link since that original series of posts I saw a few days back.)
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight...02.html#012502
So-- the "scam" part connecting it to a vanity press may have changed, but given that the site doesn't even need actual words-- any randomly typed alphanumeric characters will do-- to give a recommendation shows that the algorithm has no value whatsoever.
This site should give equally compelling results:
http://www.richardclegg.org/write/