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Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by ineedasername »

rustystump wrote: post #32
ineedasername wrote: post #4

I’d encourage a change of labels away from “friend/foe”. It may seem minor but the subtle loaded nature of those paired terms encourages an adversarial stance rather than one of productive discourse. It’s not catchy so there’s probably better than this but, just as an example— “engage/ignore” could better signal to the user a neutral “do I want to bother with this person?”

I like friend and foe far more than engage and ignore. A foe isnt someone you ignore. Ignoring is what builds bubbles. A foe can often be right even if you disagree.

A foe is also someone you might preemptively punch in the face if they get too close before you could determine if they actually meant you harm right then.

I'd prefer not to label things such that I'm justifying the label's negative potential by the disproportionately small "even if" range of positive ones.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by tyre »

ineedasername wrote: post #4

I’d encourage a change of labels away from “friend/foe”. It may seem minor but the subtle loaded nature of those paired terms encourages an adversarial stance rather than one of productive discourse. It’s not catchy so there’s probably better than this but, just as an example— “engage/ignore” could better signal to the user a neutral “do I want to bother with this person?”

favorite / potato

Although there are some commenters I would want to follow because they are potato.

There is something so magical about some of the more delulu Take Havers around here.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by sickofparadox »

Another step towards the Redditification of hackernews. This is the exact opposite kind of functionality pages like HN need, we need ways to get people to engage with others' ideas more substantively rather than literally put someone on the "bad guy I won't talk to list".

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by globalnode »

Lerc wrote: post #39
ineedasername wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, okay-- though that doesn't mean the author can't do better, if I'm not just being too nitpicky.

Dot product of opinions? Using a fancier term for the same thing might be a significant axis though.

maximize your projection onto like minded commenters, create that bubble you always yearned for but until now have never had the add-on to empower the inner-you! finally, you can ignore that filthy plane of delusional outcasts and banish them to the orthogonal abyss forever.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by thinkingemote »

I used https://github.com/ToneyAlexander/HackerTagger for a bit almost a decade ago. Data locally stored, good but didn't transfer across machines, not so great.

It had a little text label next to names so you could manually add whatever you want. Recently I've thought about this extension and using it to tag the LLM users, or the humans who tend to pop up to fan the flames or who regularly post thought terminating comments - little tags to remind me to ignore the bots and trolls.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by austinjp »

waltbosz wrote: post #33

https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker/blob/main/web/im... How old is that icon set? I swear I used that same peppers icon for a Windows app that I published around 2002.

At least 15 years, if the git history is to be believed.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by unethical_ban »

jacquesm wrote: post #5
ineedasername wrote: post #4

I’d encourage a change of labels away from “friend/foe”. It may seem minor but the subtle loaded nature of those paired terms encourages an adversarial stance rather than one of productive discourse. It’s not catchy so there’s probably better than this but, just as an example— “engage/ignore” could better signal to the user a neutral “do I want to bother with this person?”

That's just Slashdot's influence. They did the same thing at some point.

I've wanted something like this for a long time and also thought of the slashdot system. This is directly from that.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance

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Post by XorNot »

rustystump wrote: post #50
XorNot wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People I want to ignore I usually disagree with as well, but that's not the problem: the problem is they are repetitive and boring.

I sure hope the disagreement to ignore ven diagram doesnt look like that. If u never engage, how will you ever know you were wrong about something repetitive and boring?

Which is not at all what I wrote.

Most things are interesting if you look deeply into them. People on the other hand can be repetitive and boring about them. Which would extend to the excessive use of meta-argument: complaining people aren't listening but also not actually saying anything of substance.

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