The Saltiest Users on HN • Hacker News Board

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by msluyter » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:42 PM UTC

I love this!

I'm sort of proud to note that my salt score is -0.08, with my saltiest comment being:

The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers.

However, (and this will apparently add to my salt score ;)), I'm curious how a comments like these get rated as expressing a negative sentiment?:

Out of curiosity, how does Metro look to color blind people?

I used to get terribly sleepy in the afternoons; sometimes I'd go out to my car and take a 15 minute nap, even in the brutal Texas summer. Then I started taking vitamin D and went on a paleo diet, and now I almost never get tired in the afternoons. Nada. It's a great relief to not always be fighting to stay awake.

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by wsdfsayy » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

"salty" is a great euphemism for "nihilistic asshat"

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by newsoul2019 » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

I'm seeing this "Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.hackersalt.com. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details."

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by matt4077 » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

Fun to see “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” is ranked above “Robert Scobel is an ass”. The algorithm seems to know about tech c-list celebs AND able to recognize great literature.

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by shhehebehdh » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

I’d love to see a category like “productively salty” which would do something like an h index ranking. Your score is the highest number n such that you have n salty comments with at least n net score.

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by weberc2 » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:44 PM UTC

I'm disappointed at how unsalty my saltiest comments are (https://www.hackersalt.com/weberc2). I'll have to try harder. :/

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by Kassius509 » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #11

I love this! I'm sort of proud to note that my salt score is -0.08, with my saltiest comment being: The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers. However, (and this will apparently add to my salt score ;)), I'm curious how a comments like these get rated as expressing a negative sentiment?: Out of curios…

I’m glad you like it! I think we all have room to improve.

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

smacktoward wrote: post #7

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

The first list is mostly people who I don't recognize, and assume are uncommon posters, where one or two bad comments put them on the "saltiest" list. The other two top lists are more interesting, because while there is a lot of salty people in there I recognize, a bunch of people make the list solely based on total prolific amount of comments. tptacek, of course, as well as literally all of the HN moderators. Appare…

I would worry about my methodology if I saw dang, who basically only ever weighs in to politely tell people to be less salty, in the #2 spot on my "Total Salt Score" list.

Again, that list is hugely weighted by frequency of comment. Someone who posts more than almost anyone else will end up vastly higher on the list, even if the majority of comments are not salty. People whose job it is to post on this forum, and particularly to step in where things get negative, is almost sure to manage to rank on the list.

And of course, if you click on him, you can see his "saltiest" responses to people. Some are arguably decently salty, though many are pretty polite too.

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by weberc2 » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #11

I love this! I'm sort of proud to note that my salt score is -0.08, with my saltiest comment being: The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers. However, (and this will apparently add to my salt score ;)), I'm curious how a comments like these get rated as expressing a negative sentiment?: Out of curios…

I like the idea, but I'm very skeptical of the implementation. My saltiest comments per the tool are not remotely salty, and I'm sure I have many saltier comments. Turns out NLP is hard.

FWIW, my salt score is -0.09 ;)

Re: The Saltiest Users on HN

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Post by mabbo » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #11

I love this! I'm sort of proud to note that my salt score is -0.08, with my saltiest comment being: The iPad and iPhone are especially dangerous when it comes to accidental downvoting. Separating or enlarging the arrows would help those of us with fat fingers. However, (and this will apparently add to my salt score ;)), I'm curious how a comments like these get rated as expressing a negative sentiment?: Out of curios…

I wonder if the ML has learned that words like "brutal", "fighting" "tired" or even "terribly" imply saltiness. If that's the case, this reply to you is going to be pretty darned salty.