A bunch of people have been emailing me asking to have their IP unblocked after using this script
http://github.com/brainkarma/hnreputation/tree/master
which apparently hits the server so hard that it gets their IP ignored.
Please don't use hnreputation
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Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#2For those that don't know what this is...
"This Greasemonkey script for news.ycombinator.com will display the reputation of a user in the comment header as well as in the links' title tooltip."
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#3For those that don't know what this is... "This Greasemonkey script for news.ycombinator.com will display the reputation of a user in the comment header as well as in the links' title tooltip."
This does not strike me as conducive to the purpose of HN.
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#4It does one HTTP request for each comment in a thread, it looks like.
Kind of irresponsible coding, I think.
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#5If this functionality is desired enough for enough people to use this, why not publish a list of users, updated say, hourly so these scripts can cache the reputations? But then again, don't really see the point in using this.
Also, if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list.
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#6It does one HTTP request for each comment in a thread, it looks like. Kind of irresponsible coding, I think.
Heh, I think the person who wrote it needs to read more HN.
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#7It does one HTTP request for each comment in a thread, it looks like. Kind of irresponsible coding, I think.
Kind of? sounds almost like a DOS attack to me...
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#8If this functionality is desired enough for enough people to use this, why not publish a list of users, updated say, hourly so these scripts can cache the reputations? But then again, don't really see the point in using this. Also, if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list.
A) Reputation isn't a very good measure of anything as far as I'm concerned.
B) It's trivial to click on someone's name and see what their reputation is if it's important to the person reading / replying.
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#9For those that don't know what this is... "This Greasemonkey script for news.ycombinator.com will display the reputation of a user in the comment header as well as in the links' title tooltip."
This does not strike me as conducive to the purpose of HN.
It's not, and I seem to remember that this exact problem (the technical problem, but also the one you mention) was pointed out when the script was introduced.
Re: Please don't use hnreputation
#10If this functionality is desired enough for enough people to use this, why not publish a list of users, updated say, hourly so these scripts can cache the reputations? But then again, don't really see the point in using this. Also, if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list.
if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list
Exactly.
http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
No need to spam up the site to get information that is found on a link already.