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Re: Hater News – Now for Twitter and Reddit

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Post by goostavos »

lukasm wrote: post #19

The Worst Comment* "How many languages you know - that many times you are a human."

One of mine was (truncated) "What an amazing fucking museum! ... Fat man and Little Boy earrings" which was in reference to the Atomic Bomb Museum in Las Vegas.

I guess I hit the key words of calling something "fat," and dropping the f-bomb.

The "troll rate" across all my accounts is 3.X.. which is interesting. Because I'm definitely a little more.. "lively" on some accounts than others (for instance HN compared to Reddit). I would have expected one to be much higher than the other.

Re: Hater News – Now for Twitter and Reddit

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Post by drivingmenuts »

mmahemoff wrote: post #25
drivingmenuts wrote: post #16

Apparently, I'm not a real person ... :(

This seems to be the default error message that's shown when the queue's too full to analyse a user. Which is probably not a great thing when the site's busy being upvoted on HN.

Now I'm tempted to Yelp that sucker and become the most hated person ever on one of the services.

Basically, get them to change the subject of Godwin's Law.

Re: Hater News – Now for Twitter and Reddit

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Post by viggity »

a lot of the links to reddit comments are broken, if the title of the page in reddit has a slash in it, the slash is not being ommited/escaped in the URL and so reddit can't find it.

Sample: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6dnve/Top%20Comedi... is broken because it has a slash in the title (9/11)

Killing that slash fixes it: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6dnve/Top%20Comedi...

Re: Hater News – Now for Twitter and Reddit

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Post by Karunamon »

Cool, but it doesn't take retweets, @replies, and quoted replies into account. My worst comments over on Reddit are where I quote someone else who said something mean, and the same goes for Twitter.

And the results for HN are truly head-scratching. Use of the word "fucking" regardless of context is apparently enough to elevate a comment to "worst" status. (Watch me get a few points just for this comment alone!)

Don't get me wrong, this is a neat tool, but it's going to be misused in character assassinations on others, especially with its current presentation, where phrases are used like "troll score", "most insulting" and so on.

I'd really suggest toning that presentation down and emphasizing the fact that this is imperfect until the algorithm has been tweaked further.

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