HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
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Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#2Hey Michael,
that does a request to the server for every comment listed, so you are basically loading up HN with a high multiple of the current number of requests per second if this becomes popular and / or gets loaded in threads with a large number of comments.
Not sure if this is a good idea.
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#3Hey Michael, that does a request to the server for every comment listed, so you are basically loading up HN with a high multiple of the current number of requests per second if this becomes popular and / or gets loaded in threads with a large number of comments. Not sure if this is a good idea.
Well I'm sure HN gets quite a lot traffic as is at the moment on the homepage and with rss feeds and whatnot.
The user profile page itself is only around 19KB....
I'm definitely not trying to DDoS Hacker News though. If this really causes problems I will delete the repo.
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#4Hey Michael, that does a request to the server for every comment listed, so you are basically loading up HN with a high multiple of the current number of requests per second if this becomes popular and / or gets loaded in threads with a large number of comments. Not sure if this is a good idea.
Well I'm sure HN gets quite a lot traffic as is at the moment on the homepage and with rss feeds and whatnot. The user profile page itself is only around 19KB.... I'm definitely not trying to DDoS Hacker News though. If this really causes problems I will delete the repo.
Do the math, a thread with 50 comments (not rare) suddenly pulls an extra megabyte in order to retrieve several hundred bytes of info per pageview.
Anyway, it really isn't my call to make, I just figured I should warn you, in case you had not thought through the consequences of this becoming popular.
edit: unless I'm misreading your code it even does requests for users that are listed multiple times on a single page, you could easily save there by caching the results of your queries.
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#5I can't be sure of this, but I don't think that such large percentage of the HN readership:
a) Uses Firefox and Greasemonkey b) Will want to install it and keep it installed for a long time.
For the few that will, I don't think this will make such a huge impact.
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#6What do you gain knowing the karma and age of a user when you're replying its comment or thread?
Are you going to base your disertation at "argumentum ad hominem"?
No to the subjetivism
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#7What do you gain knowing the karma and age of a user when you're replying its comment or thread? Are you going to base your disertation at "argumentum ad hominem"? No to the subjetivism
When I evaluate the merit someone's statement in the real world a big factor will always be my and others' respect for that person based on my his\her reputation.
The comments on HN already display the user name. Tell me, would you honestly discern a comment from pg the same as you would for some other unknown user?
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#8What do you gain knowing the karma and age of a user when you're replying its comment or thread? Are you going to base your disertation at "argumentum ad hominem"? No to the subjetivism
When I evaluate the merit someone's statement in the real world a big factor will always be my and others' respect for that person based on my his\her reputation. The comments on HN already display the user name. Tell me, would you honestly discern a comment from pg the same as you would for some other unknown user?
To be honest, I don't usually read the names of those commenting (and notice that they are less prominent, being in grey, than the comment itself) - at least until after thinking "Good point, well made."
But perhaps others are more fan-worshipping.
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#9I can't be sure of this, but I don't think that such large percentage of the HN readership: a) Uses Firefox and Greasemonkey b) Will want to install it and keep it installed for a long time. For the few that will, I don't think this will make such a huge impact.
Really? I consider myself an oddball because I typically don't use Firefox and Greasemonkey. From all the blog posts, articles on sites like LifeHacker, etc, that I see, I figured Greasemonkey was extremely popular amongst the techie crowd.
Re: HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well I'm sure HN gets quite a lot traffic as is at the moment on the homepage and with rss feeds and whatnot. The user profile page itself is only around 19KB.... I'm definitely not trying to DDoS Hacker News though. If this really causes problems I will delete the repo.
Do the math, a thread with 50 comments (not rare) suddenly pulls an extra megabyte in order to retrieve several hundred bytes of info per pageview. Anyway, it really isn't my call to make, I just figured I should warn you, in case you had not thought through the consequences of this becoming popular. edit: unless I'm misreading your code it even does requests for users that are listed multiple times on a single page,…
Maybe he can modify the script so that the score is shown only on demand.