It sounds great, except I am getting 502 Bad Gateway when following the URL. I think the site went down.
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
#82Finally someone brings this place the explicit toxicity it had been missing all those years. /s
If you're on HN and you look in the comments and can't tell who the toxic one is, it's you.
I believe the argument is that introducing personal aspects like this friend foe business inherently serves to increase argumentative bias and reduce quality of discussion. personally this seems like a slop project either way , so regardless as to how beneficial it could be, I'm still going to behave toxically towards it - if you really love or hate someone so much , you would have memorized their name already !
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#83I would suggest categorizing the quality of comments by its content and not its creator. Oh, nevermind, that’s a silly thought. Challenge my core belief? Well… I could rationally evaluate that, or, I could just use a tool to block it from my vision! Bubble thickener.
There are enough bad-faith commenters on HN that I personally would find this very useful.
asking this out of curiosity due to recent reflection on similar - what's stopping us simply not responding to those arguing in bad faith ?
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#84Another 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".
people seem to prefer only reading things from people they agree with
matthew 5:47
wish this idea was more prevalent in modern politics !
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are some trolls in here that seemingly evade getting banned despite their moronic comments... Also, many comments just take a wrong premise and attack you (e.g. that not wanting the slaughter of innocent people equals supporting terrorists who want to slaughter innocent people). They don't offer anything more than that, so that IMO taking the time to consider their mostly one-note opinion is just wasting said t…
> There are some trolls in here that seemingly evade getting banned despite their moronic comments... As moderators we can only judge comments according to the guidelines, and can only ban accounts if they repeatedly breach them. You're always welcome to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) about an account that has been continually breaching the guidelines.
I don't have the name(s) off the top of my head, but can't you do a query of users whose account age are greater than (some threshold) but whose median comment score /amount of flagged to death comments is past some other threshold.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#86What’s the purpose? More echo chambers and circle jerking parties?! Why some people are so inclined to label others? I might dislike someone’s comment on something or disagree with their opinion about it, but absolutely love their comments on another topic. And if that is an “overall” score for a person’s comments, then who are you to hijack my personality and tell me this person is good or not to engage with? Unless it’s just a joke, the concept is stupid.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#87I wish there was a way for HN to sponsor scale up so that sites have more availability for the HN hug of death
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#88I 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…
> I wonder what the second order effects of this on the HN karma system will be
My first thought was this replacement of the HN karma system would make it a lot like FB and Xitter - a collection of disjoint echo chambers. My second thought was the same, then I stopped thinking about it.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Woh there cowboy we are talking about online chat miles away. If u dont like it, cool beans.
I like it. sometimes my greatest foes become my dearest friends. Funny how life works that way.
Re: Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
#90502 Bad Gateway
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.