"The sort of incivility we're worried about is the more explicit type where someone replies to a comment with "You are an idiot. Don't you realize that x y z?" when they could have simply said "x y z." I'm pretty ..."
It would be cool to ignore/weight down quoted text somehow.
Interesting, my most downvoted comment is also my highest rated: "Downvoted because enough is enough! The "14 competing standards" comic was really funny the first few hundred times it was snarked into HN comments." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354087
This is one of the very few sites I've flagged in my 3+ year HN history. Here's why: HN seems to work because we focus our attention on high-quality posts and "content-filled" comments. Low-quality (and sometimes unpopular, unfortunately) comments are penalized. This project -- if it does what it claims -- seems to focus on people that create low-quality comments (i.e., "trolls"). In a way, it's rewarding them for th…
I would say this project alone seems harmless enough, but this regarding this comment from the author's blog post I have to say I agree with you on: > *Side Note: Eventually I would love to turn this into a Chrome App that will just real-time analyze any user on a page when you visit hacker news and put a score right next to them so the world can see if they hate or love. I’m also going to build versions of this for…
I think both of you have great points. I am not trying to demean anyone or give extra credit to trolls. I do agree that this app is focused on "haters" though. It was more just a fun experiment to see how well it would even work. One thing I noticed is that most people on Hacker News have well thought out comments and are not in fact "haters" (usually only a few percent likely they post insulting comments.) As far as a chrome extension, my intention would be to help give people context for comments based on previous actions. I think transparency can sometimes be powerful and give someone an additional lens to look through when encountering an encouraging or discouraging comment.
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments. aww I always get here too late for the cool stuff.
I got a score of 3.27%. That said, the methodology here is totally broken. I expected my worst comment to be related to one of the many gender debates on HN, but no. Apparently, it's this : ---------------------- You can try "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace". It's a fictionalized retelling of the stories of the two prominent BBS hacker/phreaker groups during the 80s and early 90s. It's not really…
The last two letters of the "bulletin board system" abbreviation might be what the software is latching on to.
I got a score of 3.27%. That said, the methodology here is totally broken. I expected my worst comment to be related to one of the many gender debates on HN, but no. Apparently, it's this : ---------------------- You can try "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace". It's a fictionalized retelling of the stories of the two prominent BBS hacker/phreaker groups during the 80s and early 90s. It's not really…
Well, a master troll is abrasive using ideas, not words, right?