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What I want is a way to flag comments, and threads on the homepage with comments, by users I have marked as interesting. This may be an okay proxy, but I have n

What I want is a way to flag comments, and threads on the homepage with comments, by users I have marked as interesting. This may be an okay proxy, but I have no idea how noisy it is since I normally don't see karma. There's certain users that (often due to them being experts in a certain area) very often post interesting comments that I learn a lot from. I mainly find them by occasionally reading their comment history, but it would be nice to see them while the discussion is still ongoing. A few examples: pcwalton, patio11, jblow, WalterBright

chipperyman573 10y ago
Something like this? You could just package this as an extension or something. var likedUsers = ['pcwalton', 'patio11', 'jblow', 'WalterBright']; var users = document.getElementsByClassName("hnuser"); for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) { if (likedUsers.indexOf(users[i].innerHTML) != -1) { users[i].setAttribute("style", "font-weight: bold;"); //Or whatever } }
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
 Wait, not like this? document.documentElement.innerHTML = document.documentElement.innerHTML.replace( new RegExp('(?:' + ['pcwalton', 'patio11', 'jblow', 'WalterBright'].join('|') + ')', 'g'), '$&' ); DHTML!
 - chipperyman573 10y ago
 Because regex is costly. Your solution takes 27.1 ms on my machine, and my script takes 12.4 ms.
 - thesmallestcat 10y ago
 (It's a joke, with poor delivery it seems. It also pointlessly replaces things in <head>. Also, it clobbers every element on the page, attached event handlers included, so it's expensive and destructive. To be clear, it's expensive because it treats the page as a string rather than using the DOM and replaces every element, not because regular expressions are expensive, which they aren't. As far as string replacements go, it's pretty quick. The underlying joke is it's a 1997 JS novice/Perl monk's attempt at replacing your O(n*m) script, which really needs no optimization, hence the dated and "DHTML!"... I'll see myself out).
viraptor 10y ago
I'm using the HackerTagger extension in Chrome for extra context on the users. You could probably use that to some extent to highlight their posts/comments. (It will not show they commented on somebody else's post though)
morsch 10y ago
Slashdot -- as always the trailblazer in terms of comment self-moderation -- had that feature 10 years ago. You could mark users as friends or foes; their posts would be highlighted and get a (customisable) karma modifier. I don't like the terminology, but I think I like the feature. While having inter-personal vendettas is probably bad for forum culture, it at least facilitates some kind of inter-personal relationships. It's nice to judge each comment on its own merits, but it's also fun and interesting to recognise someone as a peer whose comments you liked -- or disliked! -- before. It's also orthogonal to the karma system. I already have a personal (if completely one sided) relationship to a few prominent hacker news users. But outside of that circle of maybe 5 to 10 people, posts might as well be anonymous. Annotating other users makes it easier to expand this sphere beyond hacker news royalty.
oblio 10y ago
I'd add pjmlp to the list.

chipperyman573 10y ago

Something like this? You could just package this as an extension or something. var likedUsers = ['pcwalton', 'patio11', 'jblow', 'WalterBright']; var users = document.getElementsByClassName("hnuser"); for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) { if (likedUsers.indexOf(users[i].innerHTML) != -1) { users[i].setAttribute("style", "font-weight: bold;"); //Or whatever } }

thesmallestcat 10y ago
Wait, not like this? document.documentElement.innerHTML = document.documentElement.innerHTML.replace( new RegExp('(?:' + ['pcwalton', 'patio11', 'jblow', 'WalterBright'].join('|') + ')', 'g'), '$&' ); DHTML!
- chipperyman573 10y ago
 Because regex is costly. Your solution takes 27.1 ms on my machine, and my script takes 12.4 ms.
 - thesmallestcat 10y ago
 (It's a joke, with poor delivery it seems. It also pointlessly replaces things in <head>. Also, it clobbers every element on the page, attached event handlers included, so it's expensive and destructive. To be clear, it's expensive because it treats the page as a string rather than using the DOM and replaces every element, not because regular expressions are expensive, which they aren't. As far as string replacements go, it's pretty quick. The underlying joke is it's a 1997 JS novice/Perl monk's attempt at replacing your O(n*m) script, which really needs no optimization, hence the dated and "DHTML!"... I'll see myself out).

viraptor 10y ago

I'm using the HackerTagger extension in Chrome for extra context on the users. You could probably use that to some extent to highlight their posts/comments. (It will not show they commented on somebody else's post though)

morsch 10y ago

Slashdot -- as always the trailblazer in terms of comment self-moderation -- had that feature 10 years ago. You could mark users as friends or foes; their posts would be highlighted and get a (customisable) karma modifier. I don't like the terminology, but I think I like the feature. While having inter-personal vendettas is probably bad for forum culture, it at least facilitates some kind of inter-personal relationships. It's nice to judge each comment on its own merits, but it's also fun and interesting to recognise someone as a peer whose comments you liked -- or disliked! -- before. It's also orthogonal to the karma system. I already have a personal (if completely one sided) relationship to a few prominent hacker news users. But outside of that circle of maybe 5 to 10 people, posts might as well be anonymous. Annotating other users makes it easier to expand this sphere beyond hacker news royalty.

oblio 10y ago

I'd add pjmlp to the list.