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Do you know of any extensions that put googly eyes over spiders? I really want this, but ironically I am too squicked out by spiders to go acquire a training set and tweak it mysel…

This weekend, hundreds of hapless hackers converged in San Francisco, ripe with terrible ideas. After twenty-four hours, some "hacks" have rotted (literally), while others have bur…

It is also entirely possible that since I have only posted this to HN and Facebook thus far, it has not yet reached its ultimate audience of idiot cyberbully trolls :(

Ok, seems like it's doing pretty well in favor of positivity. I searched some common nice/nasty words in the DB and I'm seeing on the order of: - 25-70 hits for strings containing …

Thanks! Added to todo list

Haha I think that's my friend who is obsessed with type safety doing bug checks :)

Haha, that's why I don't display numbers on the bar charts. They're just to get the most important characteristics to bubble to the top. I kept the overall aggregate counts because…

Btw, many thanks for pointing this case out. I really don't have good ideas on how to prevent this besides going the brute force route of flagging negative words.

Cursorily seemed fine on my IOS7, but I did not optimize for mobile. What are you using?

Ahh I see, fishing for compliments is definitely a bad use case that's hard to circumvent. Any ideas? I attempt to subtly discourage narcissistic submissions in the prompts but peo…

Clarification of analogy: if a doodle link gets posted to an internet forum (as happened with my example page), it will get spammed, but trollbait pages are irrelevant -- pages whi…

Do you mean that users should be able to delete pages? I can personally delete them, but you can't.

Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent…

Personally I'm surprised by the extremely high disapproval/approval ratio for C++. It does what you want it to, it's performant, the syntax doesn't make you jump through unnecessar…

Hypotheses mostly based on my own internal biases regarding some of the languages I have experience with: haskell upvotes = theoretical mathematicians javascript upvotes = web deve…