Automated filtering of item comments

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a computer readable memory in circuit communication with the processor;
• and a computer readable storage medium in circuit communication with the processor;
• wherein the processor executes program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memory and thereby:
• analyzes via image analysis a photograph item that is published to an account of a user of a social network service to identify and distinguish an element that is an image of an object that is visible within the photograph item from other elements that are visible within graphic content of the published photograph item and from surrounding contextual visual image pixel data, wherein the item is published with a plurality of comments that are posted by a plurality of users of the social network service that is inclusive of the user, and wherein the surrounding contextual visual image pixel data defines a background element or a foreground element;
• in response to a selection of the distinguished element, and a third element of the other elements that is visually distinguished from the distinguished element within the published photograph, determines a visual attribute of one of the distinguished element and the third element;
• analyzes text content of the plurality of comments to identify associations of the analyzed text content of the plurality of comments to the selected distinguished element, the third element and the determined visual attribute;
• differentially displays a subset of the plurality of comments to the user account of the social network in association with the published item, relative to displays of remaining others of the plurality of comments that are not within the subset,
• in response to determining that analyzed text content of the subset plurality of comments comprises string text content associated with identification of the determined visual attribute and the selected distinguished element and the third element,
• and that the analyzed text content of each of the remaining others of the plurality of comments does not comprise the string text content identification of the determined visual attribute and the selected distinguished element and the third element, wherein the string text content identification of the determined visual attribute is a description of an appearance feature of a person, wherein the selected distinguished element is an image of the person and the third element is the appearance feature that is visible within the image of the person.

A computer program product for automated filtering of comments associated with a published item element, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the computer readable program code comprising instructions for execution by a processor that cause the processor to:
• analyze via image analysis a photograph item that is published to an account of a user of a social network service to identify and distinguish an element that is an image of an object that is visible within the photograph item from other elements that are visible within graphic content of the published photograph item and from surrounding contextual visual image pixel data, wherein the item is published with a plurality of comments that are posted by a plurality of users of the social network service that is inclusive of the user, and wherein the surrounding contextual visual image pixel data defines a background element or a foreground element;
• in response to a selection of the distinguished element and a third element of the other elements that is visually distinguished from the distinguished element within the published photograph, determining a visual attribute of one of the distinguished element and the third element;
• analyze text content of the plurality of comments to identify associations of the analyzed text content of the plurality of comments to the selected distinguished element, the third element and the determined visual attribute;
• and
• differentially display a subset of the plurality of comments to the user account of the social network in association with the published item, relative to displays of remaining others of the plurality of comments that are not within the subset,
• in response to determining that analyzed text content of the subset plurality of comments comprises string text content associated with identification of the determined visual attribute and of the selected distinguished element and the third element, and
• that the analyzed text content of each of the remaining others of the plurality of comments does not comprise the string text content identification of the determined visual attribute and the selected distinguished element and the third element, wherein the string text content identification of the determined visual attribute is a description of an appearance feature of a person, wherein the selected distinguished element is an image of the person and the third element is the appearance feature that is visible within the image of the person.