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Show HN: Choose a Word

40 pointsby romesover 5 years ago

10 comments

mellosoulsover 5 years ago
I feel stupid asking this, but what is the point of this exercise?<p>Seriously - I don&#x27;t understand what I have achieved by choosing a word and being designated a tribe - beyond the literal interpretation of that.<p>No snark intended, I&#x27;ve returned to the site but there&#x27;s no about page.<p>I&#x27;ve chosen a word as per the site name.<p>Mission accomplished?
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krackersover 5 years ago
This is clever in its simplicity. I suggest that the votes on the &quot;choose a word&quot; page for your tribe be hidden though, to avoid everyone just piling on the highest vote and encouraging people to look through the list.
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wingiover 5 years ago
@firebase&#x2F;database: FIREBASE WARNING: The Firebase database &#x27;haikus-cfec8&#x27; has reached its peak connections limit. If you are the Firebase owner, consider upgrading. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haikus-cfec8.firebaseio.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;haikus-cfec8.firebaseio.com</a>) c @ 7aeb0c9c85f0c65bfb0b.js:2
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furyofantaresover 5 years ago
I hope I remember to come back tomorrow. I could see something like this becoming my new tab page. I like to have a word or thought of the day and doing it as a group exercise with one of these “tribes” sounds delightful.
phailhausover 5 years ago
Update: after dropping vote counts, I&#x27;m now seeing words &quot;win&quot; in a tribe with a comically small percentage of the vote. Don&#x27;t really see the reason to keep voting when &quot;relax&quot; wins in the red tribe with only 17 votes out of 600+ tribe members. Compare that to &quot;kindness&quot; in the yellow tribe which won with 449 votes out of ~1000 when vote counts were enabled.
Fissionover 5 years ago
Unfortunately it&#x27;s easily broken by a bad actor. There&#x27;s no unique identifier in its POST request, which allows unlimited upvoting of a particular option.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;jnwgfRs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;jnwgfRs</a><p>Though maybe this is simply bringing balance to the word choices. I&#x27;m very surprised the top choices were actually reasonable, and not Boaty McBoatface-type words at all.
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Fnoordover 5 years ago
(How) is my data or the dataset being used?
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ColinWrightover 5 years ago
Hmm:<p><pre><code> Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to chooseaword.com.</code></pre>
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quickthrower2over 5 years ago
I chose the red word as the colour made it stand out.
test1004over 5 years ago
Venus