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Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
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Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#172I would prefer to do the opposite, where everything is displayed in chronological order (with an option to display by threads or not; even if not you can still find what each one is a reply to) regardless of voting and regardless of who wrote them.
I've been wishing for a News (NNTP) portal for HN. Would solve that as well as making it easier to follow larger threads by allowing you to track read/unread. Mostly because I really miss newsgroups though.
I also thought of that too. It would allow what I mentioned and what you mentioned. If you want to hide messages from specific users (or other criteria), then that would also be possible.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#173I wonder what the second order effects of this on the HN karma system will be. It'll create a graph of karmic supernodes perhaps. Say I green-blob someone with a big reputation here, say jacquesm; no doubt lots of other people will do the same. The friends-of-friends icon is going to appear widely but it'll all be a single edge away from Jacques' node. Is that much of a signal? I dunno. That's 30 seconds of thought a…
It's not bi-directional. When you friend jacques, you see people who he has friended as FoaF, not people who have friended him. It's a curator-style system, not a direct popularity one.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#174I'm interested in peoples thoughts about this. There are people in here that I generally respect, but on certain subjects I have seen comments that are not helpful. If I saw one of them first I might click 'foe' and then ignore them in the future. And this seems normal. I have a friend in real life who I like talking to, we share some views, and vehemently disagree on other subjects. He likes to bring them up and I t…
It's the difference between 99% and 100% of an accounts' posts. Maybe for those rare accounts that only speak when they have something to say on a topic they are knowledgeable on it's higher.
I'd divide that green by the amount of posts the account makes (and maybe start red lower and multiply) test that and you'd probably find most accounts are beige.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#175I'm actually loving HN because it hasn't such a system.
While it looks like a very good idea at first, it will evolve in echo chambers. Which are the bane of current society, as noone listen to challenging opinions anymore.
So, very much like the "ban of VPN" for minors, it is a seemingly good idea that will backfire in horrible ways.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#176I'm late to the party, but this seems like the answer to the slop-pocalyspe!
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#177Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh man, I had no idea this got reposted and I just discovered now, 8 hours later. Anyway, I kicked the server and its back up.
Is there an HN version of slash-dotted?
It wasn't actually down from overuse, the node.js server hit an unhandled error and fell over. And because this is the first time I was seeing real usage, I didn't have a supervisor in place to restart it automatically. That's handled now, of course.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#179Just wanted to say thanks for this, I was literally looking for something like this a couple weeks ago. Looking forward to more people using it to see how useful the friend-of-a-friend feature turns out to be.