On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:56:49 -0500
Kevin A. McGrail wrote:

> We have the ability to automatically determine rules that are not
> needed and use zero scores to turn them off. 

A lot of them are core rules which should really be removed properly.

> To my knowledge in the history of the project, no one is ever looked
> at turning rules off and especially not doing so with meta rules.

Maybe there's a difference in trunk, but otherwise the sub-rules
that do the work still run when they aren't used, so there's little
benefit.

It's right to suppress them for causing FPs of course.


> The ruleset will improve
> your performance by about 20% without lowering the efficacy rate.

According to a comment in "KAM_heavyweight.cf" 15% comes from
redefining away just 8 sub-rules. 

__FILL_THIS_FORM_FRAUD_PHISH1
__FILL_THIS_FORM_LOAN1
__FILL_THIS_FORM_LONG2
__FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT2
__KAM_ALARM3
__KAM_DISH3
__KAM_SKIN3
__KAM_WEIGHT4




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