How /last30days's Fun Judge Finds the Best One-Liners in Research Results
Problem
Traditional research tools score everything by relevance to the query. The funniest, most viral, most quotable content gets buried because it’s less relevant in a strict sense. Tommy Lloyd’s “My Michael Jordan is Steve Kerr” is not a relevant answer to “what is Arizona’s basketball strategy” — but it’s the most memorable thing anyone said about the topic.
The Solution
/last30days v3 has a second AI judge that scores every result for humor, wit, and virality alongside the relevance score. The scoring runs in parallel with the main relevance scoring. Results that score high on “fun” get surfaced in a “Best Takes” section at the end of every brief.
Here’s the difference:
Without Fun Judge: - r/collegebasketball: 142 points, 89 comments "Arizona's paint scoring strategy analysis"
With Fun Judge (Best Takes): - "My Michael Jordan is Steve Kerr" — Tommy Lloyd - r/collegebasketball: 2.3k upvotes on a thread roasting the comparison - "The analytics say no, but my heart says yes"How the Fun Judge Works
After the main scoring pipeline, the Fun Judge evaluates each item on four axes:
| Axis | What It Measures |
|---|---|
| Cleverness | Wit, wordplay, unexpected framing |
| Virality potential | Shareability, quotability |
| Humor value | Laugh-out-loud reactions |
| Shareability | Would you forward this to a colleague? |
High-scoring items are collected into the Best Takes section, with inline citations to the original source. In v3.0+, humor is baked into the narrative itself — the Fun Judge scores are integrated into the synthesis, not relegated to a separate box.
Why This Matters
Research briefs that are only data and analysis are dry. Best Takes makes them quotable. The one-liner you remember, the quote you share, the reaction that tells the real story — these are often the most valuable parts of research, but traditional tools actively suppress them by scoring only for strict relevance.
The Fun Judge transforms research from a dry report into something you want to read and share. Relevance tells you what matters. The Fun Judge tells you what people will remember.
Summary
In this post, I explained how /last30days’s Fun Judge scores results for humor and virality. The key point is that the Fun Judge runs alongside the relevance scorer, and the best one-liners get surfaced in a Best Takes section — making research briefs quotable and shareable, not just informative.
Final Words + More Resources
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