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Echochamber.js
- itsnotlupus 11y agoIs this that PoC I heard about for a highly-scalable distributed successor to Reddit?
- strangecasts 11y agoTo be fair, this commenting model does ensure everyone's opinion gets equal reach.
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- nicolewhite 11y agoIt'd also be neat to populate it randomly with other "users'" comments for further trickery.
- jMyles 11y agoPart of the ethical construct of the current form is that there is no trickery. The user sees the real, unadulterated data.
- nicolewhite 11y agoThat is true. It would also betray the name echochamber. :)
- thirdtruck 11y agoWhat about Markov chain reconstructions of their own comments?
- Drakim 11y agoMarkov 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.
- thirdtruck 11y agoGiven the target commenter user base, I don't see that being an issue. ;)
- ihuman 11y agoThere is something similar to that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ The only difference is that you cannot comment.
- Cyph0n 11y agoMy favorite place on Reddit. It's a goldmine of ridiculousness.
- sleepychu 11y agoHad a quick google, couldn't find a corpus of spam blog posts. Surely somebody has one?
- g-clef 11y agoI hear someone just released the full corpus of Reddit comments...
- tdicola 11y agoAlso use a chatbot script to randomly reply to the user's comments.
- bntyhntr 11y agoBeautiful
- STRiDEX 11y agoAt least send the http request to https://devnull-as-a-service.com https://devnull-as-a-service.com
- S4M 11y agoHN could use that on shadowbanned people. Now they would get replies to their comments.
- AdrianRossouw 11y agoperfect social engineering.
- ethana 11y agoSo this is like Reddit's shadowbanning.
- kennywinker 11y agoThe idea of a shadow ban predates reddit by quite a bit, but yeah it's a little bit similar
- Killswitch 11y agoTachy goes to coventry[0] was around before Reddit. Same basic thing. [0]: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/general/chit-chat/75468-tachy-goes-to-coventry http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/general/chit-chat/75468...
- joeblau 11y agoHacker News needs to implement this in the comments for selected users.
- jotux 11y agoHN already shadow-bans users.
- nacs 11y agoThey do already. Some users' comments aren't visible to the public unless you have the "showdead" setting in your HN user preferences enabled.
- jimmaswell 11y agoThat's basically Reddit's "shadowban"
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- phn 11y agoThis 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.
- piyush_soni 11y agoOn the other hand, a lot of times, I am only interested in comments, as the article itself is junk.
- phn 11y agoI am referring to comments on the page itself. I feel like that as well, when on HN or some other community I choose to listen to.
- neilellis 11y agoDo I need to point our the irony?
- phn 11y agoNo, I do realize this is ironic. I am commenting about the "message" one might take away from the idea. I am serious in my doubts about the usefulness comments on article/blog pages when there are lots of places that offer discussion in a more controlled way.
- ForHackernews 11y agoThis is awesome. I hope it catches on.
- tomphoolery 11y agoGreatest comment plugin ever made. Hands down.
- fineline 11y agoFinally, effective decentralisation of the vacuous inane gossip that is the currency of our golden information age.
- fuzzywalrus 11y agoQuite amusing, but do you really want the trolls to feel engaged?
- ForHackernews 11y agoSo they send the link to their outraged friends and you get the sweet sweet outrage click-revenue. Duh.
- bbcbasic 11y agoSEO's are gonna love this.
- helmett 11y agoSo if you posted would you see other people's comments or only your own? Can someone setup a demo of this so we can test it out? seems intriguing
- Nadya 11y agoOnly 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.
- helmett 11y agoOh, then I would be somewhat suspicious only seeing a single comment, especially if the site is popular and there should be more comments.
- Nadya 11y agoI don't think they intend it to be used. If the title wasn't "echochamber" I would be more inclined to believe otherwise, but I'm leaning towards this being satire. It's a joke - just like DICSS [0]. [0] https://github.com/letsgetrandy/DICSS https://github.com/letsgetrandy/DICSS
- nicolewhite 11y agoOnly your own. The comments are written to your LocalStorage.
- serve_yay 11y agoYeah, everyone on Hacker News hates the comments... :|
- nacs 11y agoIt 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.
- phn 11y agoI don't know if you're being sarcastic, but you realize it doesn't actually submit anything, right?
- ekso 11y agoHe was being sarcastic.
- abrown28 11y agoWhich 3 letter agency do you work for?
- irishcoffee 11y agoDo you not understand how this code works, or are you also being sarcastic? I'm guessing sarcastic. =))
- bbcbasic 11y agoNo in-memory encryption though. In-brain encryption is the workaround, just type the resulting base64 into the input field.
- mjrbrennan 11y agoRichard Stallman is that you?
- neilellis 11y agoCan you make a version that works like Disqus but filters out anyone who disagrees with my opinions. I'm guessing someone's already implemented this on HN judging by the downvotes ;-)
- krapp 11y agoYou know what would be cool? Something like this for a forum that simulates an admin panel, so when someone hacks in, they think they're causing all sorts of mischief. It could be called a hellevator.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoI was considering making a comment system, but this is far more brilliant.
- curiousjorge 11y agoTroll level is over nine thousand. This is hilarious yet super effective. Would love to see this on YouTube comments, especially after it makes it on Reddit
- unethical_ban 11y agoSo many one-liner garbage comments, no way to downvote. 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.
- krapp 11y agoYou're lucky, some people don't find out for months, or years. Of course, actual trolls just make puppet accounts and bots can't be properly humiliated. But I suppose that is the price we must pay for intellectual purity.
- pablasso 11y agoYou need more reputation to be able to downvote.
- pyre 11y agoI don't think that @unethical_ban is talking about downvoting the comments, but downvoting the submission itself. There is no "downvote" option for submissions, only upvote and flag.
- unethical_ban 11y agooh no, I was talking about comments. And the parent is right, it comes along once you have enough karma.
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- neilellis 11y agoIf you think you're a victim of shadow banning on Hacker News can you leave a comment here ;-) Hey downvoters, get a sense of humour - sheesh.
- Killswitch 11y agoUpvoted you for misspelling humor. Love, 'MURICA.
- multinglets 11y agoppl who disagree with the national folk religion don't deserve to have opinions if they wanted to make comments they should have been good ppl like me lulz
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