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Building Hater News

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Re: Building Hater News

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post #9

Why does hate have negative connotations? If someone did evil to me, and I can't fight back, what do I have besides hate? And the app in question doesn't work.

Forget it and move on with your life?

so, is that to say that hate can't add to a discussion? It can certainly detract, but I wouldn't be so quick to say that there are no benefits.

Re: Building Hater News

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post #9

Why does hate have negative connotations? If someone did evil to me, and I can't fight back, what do I have besides hate? And the app in question doesn't work.

Forget it and move on with your life?

I'll walk knee deep in their spit then. If they can make evil to me and get away with it - why won't they?

Hatred is like a spring - it will eventually go off. That's a mechanism of delayed defence.

Re: Building Hater News

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post #7

I can't evaluate how serious or useful this is but I really like the idea. Anything that might encourage more constructive discussions is a perfectly valid thing to explore. I love the idea of trying to characterize the contributions of different commenters based on their history, including my own. Not just for things like "hatefulness" or "incoherence", which is what this seems to be detecting, but other things as w…

https://github.com/neyer/dewDrop may be up your ally - a formal language designed to make this sort of thing doable..

Re: Building Hater News

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post #10

I like the idea -- sure wish I could try it. It hasn't worked since the original submission for me. I have a feeling I'm a hater.

Same here I swear a fucking lot in my posts, hopefully the swear word detector ranks me high.

I hope this site stays up, seems lot more fun to game than karma, or rather it would be more challenging to garner karma and HP (hate points).

Re: Building Hater News

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Why does hate have negative connotations? If someone did evil to me, and I can't fight back, what do I have besides hate? And the app in question doesn't work.

On the internet, the native currency is attention. You fight back by refusing to pay them the attention they crave.

Re: Building Hater News

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Why does hate have negative connotations? If someone did evil to me, and I can't fight back, what do I have besides hate? And the app in question doesn't work.

Because it is negative [1], even if it sometimes might be an appropriate response.

[1] http://i.word.com/idictionary/hate

Re: Building Hater News

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I got hater scores of around 2.5% on both my accounts. On each one, the most hated comment was the one where I took the most pains to explain that I liked the user's main point and was just trying to clarify/disagree with a small part, i.e., to be sure I was not dodging the central point.

Reading them, they come off as passive-aggressive. I think that's a useful discovery for me. Thanks.

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