Commenting without the comments

I could see a system similar to this working into a temp "shadowban" system, where, if a poster starts spamming up a forum or comments section, said banned users' posts can't be seen by anyone else but the poster, and all discussion threads created after the "ban" by said poster are discarded, _but_ still show up as if they were successfully posted.

This could help clean up a lot of "OH ME TOO LOL" or "first post" posters if they're trying to get around those filters, without the user realizing he's been banned and start retaliating.

A bit of a "12 year old" filter, if you will. :-)

Re: Commenting without the comments

#6

Post by sneakernets » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

monksy wrote: post #2

Someone stole HN's source?!

I hate to break it to ya, but...

Re: Commenting without the comments

#7

Post by andyidsinga » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:32 PM UTC

this is brilliant, needs some local robot code to argue..achem "converse" with the commenter. bonus points for multiple robot personalities, misspellings and foul language.

Re: Commenting without the comments

#8

Post by andyidsinga » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC

okay.. still looking at this - you know you've got internet awesome when its :

a) totally "relevant" after being around 4 years

b) has 1000s of github stars and 100+ of forks :)

Re: Commenting without the comments

#9

Post by andyidsinga » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:40 PM UTC

sneakernets wrote: post #6

monksy wrote: post #2

Someone stole HN's source?!

I hate to break it to ya, but...

haha -- I actually opened up inspector to check hn localstorage ;) ;)

Re: Commenting without the comments

#10

Post by fold_left » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 7:44 PM UTC

This is evil, I love it