Echochamber.js

#1

Post by duggan » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:36 PM UTC

Re: Echochamber.js

#2

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:47 PM UTC

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#3

Post by nicolewhite » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:49 PM UTC

It'd also be neat to populate it randomly with other "users'" comments for further trickery.

#4

Post by bntyhntr » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:52 PM UTC

Beautiful

#5

Post by STRiDEX » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

At least send the http request to https://devnull-as-a-service.com

#6

Post by S4M » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

HN could use that on shadowbanned people. Now they would get replies to their comments.

#7

Post by AdrianRossouw » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:53 PM UTC

perfect social engineering.

#8

Post by ethana » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:56 PM UTC

So this is like Reddit's shadowbanning.

#9

Post by joeblau » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:58 PM UTC

Hacker News needs to implement this in the comments for selected users.

#10

Post by kennywinker » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 10:58 PM UTC

ethana wrote: post #8

So this is like Reddit's shadowbanning.

The idea of a shadow ban predates reddit by quite a bit, but yeah it's a little bit similar