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RiderOfGiraffes scripted a bot that would do that automatically, but others here thought it was some cheap novelty trick he was pulling.
by reason 16y ago
RiderOfGiraffes scripted a bot that would do that automatically, but others here thought it was some cheap novelty trick he was pulling.
- coderdude 16y agoYeah I remember. Freaking good idea and well executed, destroyed by a small but vocal bunch of whiners.
- gjm11 16y agoIt was certainly novel, and probably cheap. In most other discussions on HN, that combination would be regarded as a good thing.
- kmfrk 16y agoI don't really know what caused some - few? - people to have a fit. Maybe anything that remotely reminds them of reddit calls for outrage.