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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by winteriscoming »

winteriscoming wrote: post #416

Thank you for adding these new features, like them! A couple of things: 1. I upvoted this submission, but I don't see any unvote link anywhere (I even refreshed the page and am currently logged in). Am on Firefox 35.0.1 (if it matters). 2. Would have liked the favorites to be private and not accessible to other users (just like comments/submissions that I upvoted), but all the same, I am happy that we now have suppor…

>> I upvoted this submission, but I don't see any unvote link anywhere (I even refreshed the page and am currently logged in). Am on Firefox 35.0.1 (if it matters).

I just read a comment in this thread that the unvote link lasts for an hour. I don't recollect if I actually voted an hour before I started looking for the unvote link. I didn't start looking for it immediately after I voted this up, so it's likely that an hour had passed.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by ifdefdebug »

There is one thing I often think about when I see certain comments downvoted: downvoting a comment should cost one karma.

After all, this score system is called karma. And hurting someone else's Karma - even for valid reasons - is bad karma by definition :)

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by epaga »

panic wrote: post #347

Awesome! One small bit of feedback: clicking [-] to collapse a thread moves the nearby text ("user 3 hours ago [+ 5]") a small amount vertically. It would be cleaner visually if it stayed in place, and it's easier to un-do an accidental collapse if you don't have to move your mouse.

A bit more info here - it moves a small amount vertically only if both the upvote and downvote arrows are visible. Collapsing older comments where only the upvote arrow is visible doesn't have the same effect.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by fmavituna »

Hey, good job there, much needed improvements. Thanks.

There is a CSRF vulnerability in the "favorite" feature.

A very quick demo, Visit this URL: https://jsfiddle.net/o9hw1u75/embedded/result/

Now visit your favs from your profile and you'll notice that "SQL Injection" post is automatically added your fav list. Just like upvote system fav needs to be protected against CSRF.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#426

Post by y4mi »

arviewer wrote: post #420
hacker42 wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would also be handy to have some visual guides for the indentation levels of nested comments as on Reddit. I've hacked my own indentation marks using a CSS injection for now, but this is clearly still not optimal: @-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com/) { td { vertical-align: top } td > img { background: repeating-linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0,0,0,0), rgba(0,0,0,0) 38px, rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 38px, r…

Proper nesting layout will only work if they use proper nesting. Given the limitations - great job! I only use the first two lines as the png does not load.

of course it doesn't.

the url leads you to localhost. you'd need a local webserver which serves your preferred upvote picture.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by bdcravens »

spicyj wrote: post #52
trjordan wrote: post #39

Suggestion: Can you move the collapse button to the left of the username? One way I tend to use nested comment threads is reading all top comments, collapsing as I go. Great stuff, overall -- thanks!

That would certainly increase the number of accidental votes.

I've used HN Enhancement Suite for a while, and that really wasn't a problem.

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

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Post by aws_ls »

ifdefdebug wrote: post #422

There is one thing I often think about when I see certain comments downvoted: downvoting a comment should cost one karma. After all, this score system is called karma. And hurting someone else's Karma - even for valid reasons - is bad karma by definition :)

Interesting suggestion. I am not sure about it costing the same karma. The net effect will then be, that the threshold of acquiring 'downvoting power' will shift further upwards. For example, people who get to 501 karma, will have to wait to get to decent threshold (perhaps 550) to feel comfortable down voting even when they want to.

May be, they could just limit the downvotes per user, to just 10 per day or something like that, so that nobody can abuse it.

On a different note, not related to your comment, a feature request (and saying it here itself, just to have a single comment on this page):

1) I have always wanted to have some basic information about HN users, as I hover over their handles. As of now, I need to click that link into a new tab to see that. It could be a useful feature to have, @dang & @scott, while you are at it.

2) Have a separate humor upvote. Often some comments (e.g. [1]) make you LOL. But you can't do anything other than upvoting them, as reddit style 'LOL' comments are not allowed. I think, we can do with encouraging some humor here, if it can be managed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12076046

Edit: Added feature req no. 2

Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator

#430

Post by aws_ls »

Johnny555 wrote: post #381

I'm thinking of signing up, I've been wanting to play the game, but don't really like walking around so this gives me the best of both worlds. I still get the excitement of the gameplay without so much unnecessary exercise.

Are you talking about Pokemon Go? You seem to have posted on the wrong thread. :-)
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