Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#1

Post by fswwi » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 8:46 AM UTC

It seems nobody pays attention to 1 point news here and news from the main page are initially upvoted by bots (to get to there). So I've written a short userscript for this site to highlight all "1 point" entries:

    [...document.querySelectorAll(".score")].filter(x => x.innerText == "1 point").map(x => x.closest("tr").previousSibling.querySelector(".storylink")).forEach(x => x.style.backgroundColor = "#FF9")

Re: Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#2

Post by quickthrower2 » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 9:57 AM UTC

I just click “new” and upvote there anything that is good

Re: Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#3

Post by aww_dang » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 10:03 AM UTC

Can you show some examples of bot manipulation?

Re: Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#4

Post by fswwi » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 10:25 AM UTC

aww_dang wrote: post #3

Can you show some examples of bot manipulation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891532 -- 33 points, no comments.

Re: Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#5

Post by gus_massa » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 12:30 PM UTC

fswwi wrote: post #4

aww_dang wrote: post #3

Can you show some examples of bot manipulation?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891532 -- 33 points, no comments.

Nah. It's just a nerdsniping[1] article. It will get a ton of votes. Also, many good articles don't get a lot of comments.

[1] https://xkcd.com/356/

Re: Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#6

Post by fswwi » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #5

fswwi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891532 -- 33 points, no comments.

Nah. It's just a nerdsniping[1] article. It will get a ton of votes. Also, many good articles don't get a lot of comments. [1] https://xkcd.com/356/

There's a lot of such "nerdsniping" articles here but they have only 1 point.

Re: Show HN: Highlight all “1 point” news

#7

Post by gus_massa » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 7:43 PM UTC

fswwi wrote: post #6

gus_massa wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah. It's just a nerdsniping[1] article. It will get a ton of votes. Also, many good articles don't get a lot of comments. [1] https://xkcd.com/356/

There's a lot of such "nerdsniping" articles here but they have only 1 point.

If you upvote them, they will have 2 points! Please visit the newest page.

Some good articles get no upvotes due to bad luck. Some are reposted and the repost get more traction. Sometimes another source cover the same event and get traction here.

From time to time there are attempts to use bots/sockpuppets/meatpuppets/shills/whatever. Most of the time the system detect the attempt, or the users detect it and flag the article or write mean comments (not very mean because dang may ban your account if you write mean comments).