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This is fantastic, I have been pondering about the usefulness of comments in the age of twitter/facebook/social media in general for a while. Not being exposed to the ramblings of random individuals would be a blessing.
Let's start by saying: cool, it's satire, and learning technologies through novel applications is the heart of hacking. I ain't even mad.
But no, shadowbanning is not cool. It was originally for spammers, not for real people you don't like. It's inconsiderate, because if effective, it wastes peoples' time writing comments they think people can read. Comments they believe contribute to the conversation. And it's not cool.
And to be clear to jMyles: This is trickery.
Disclaimer: I was shadowbanned many moons ago (hence the name now) for one comment out of hundreds I'd made on this site. That one comment was rude and terse, but not something unequivocally hateful or harmful. For that, I posted for weeks without knowing my comments re: the technologies and news I care about were being blocked. It's not cool.
It'd also be neat to populate it randomly with other "users'" comments for further trickery.
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What about Markov chain reconstructions of their own comments?
Markov chains need lots of training data to be useful. If you feed it just one comment, it pretty much reproduces that exact comment, maybe switching around or repeating a phrase somewhat.
It doesn't degrade gracefully on my Lynx browser and doesn't use any form of encryption when submitting comments, making it vulnerable to 3-letter agency interception.
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Only their own - as they wouldn't have access to any other users' local storage. That's the point. They aren't actually commenting - they're saving data into their browser's localStorage which is getting read and fed onto the page when they view it. Since they aren't actually commenting - there's no way of showing other people's comments.
Oh, then I would be somewhat suspicious only seeing a single comment, especially if the site is popular and there should be more comments.
This is fantastic, I have been pondering about the usefulness of comments in the age of twitter/facebook/social media in general for a while. Not being exposed to the ramblings of random individuals would be a blessing.
On the other hand, a lot of times, I am only interested in comments, as the article itself is junk.
Hey downvoters, get a sense of humour - sheesh.
This is fantastic, I have been pondering about the usefulness of comments in the age of twitter/facebook/social media in general for a while. Not being exposed to the ramblings of random individuals would be a blessing.