I got a score of 3.27%.<p>That said, the methodology here is totally broken. I expected my worst comment to be related to one of the many gender debates on HN, but no.<p>Apparently, it's <i>this</i>:<p>----------------------<p>You can try "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace".<p>It's a fictionalized retelling of the stories of the two prominent BBS hacker/phreaker groups during the 80s and early 90s.<p>It's not really brain food or anything like that, but it's a quick and decent read if you have free time.<p>---------------------<p>Truly this is the pinnacle of vitriol. I then looked at some of the other darker hues in the periodic table. More mundane stuff.
"The internet is covered in trolls who are filled with hate. It's time we started to expose them and put them in their place."<p>Can't say I agree with that sentiment. It comes across almost as bad as the hate it proclaims to wish to expose.<p>I don't think the Internet is covered in trolls, the trolls are an extremely small percentage of users.
This is one of the very few sites I've flagged in my 3+ year HN history. Here's why: HN seems to work because we focus our attention on high-quality posts and "content-filled" comments. Low-quality (and sometimes unpopular, unfortunately) comments are penalized.<p>This project -- if it does what it claims -- seems to focus on people that create low-quality comments (i.e., "trolls"). In a way, it's rewarding them for their behavior. (and yes, I realize the irony in my comment).<p>Also, it blanket labels anyone meeting its algorithmic threshold as a "hater", when in fact they may just have written something unpopular.<p>So I'd prefer for people to create value using HN's API in more positive, constructive ways.<p>Just my opinion, obviously.
Apparently, this is my worst comment... which can't possibly be true:<p><pre><code> "Even then, you're aware of the contacts or the implant,
unless you're living in the Matrix and were genetically
engineered with a AV jack in your spinal column."
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Only 3.15%, i'm kind of disappointed with myself.
Like every other site on the internet with game-ified comment scoring (starting perhaps with Slashdot), it mostly encourages groupthink and discourages dissenting views from being expressed.<p>OTOH, at least HN lets you create throwaway accounts easily.
1.7% for me. It seems to show constructive criticism as "hate," though I bet that's very hard to get perfect.<p>I like the little time waster videos and whatnot that show when it's taking a little while to compute.
<p><pre><code> An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.
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aww I always get here too late for the cool stuff.
Interesting, my most downvoted comment is also my highest rated: "Downvoted because enough is enough! The "14 competing standards" comic was really funny the first few hundred times it was snarked into HN comments." <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354087" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354087</a>
From the blog entry[1]<p><pre><code> Some Final Thoughts.
- Sarcasm is hard to detect.
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Reminded me of park or bird[2].<p>[1] <a href="http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/" rel="nofollow">http://kevinmcalear.com/thoughts/building-hater-news/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://xkcd.com/1425/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/1425/</a>
pg got a 2.95% with worst comment:<p>"The sort of incivility we're worried about is the more explicit type where someone replies to a comment with "You are an idiot. Don't you realize that x y z?" when they could have simply said "x y z." I'm pretty ..."<p>It would be cool to ignore/weight down quoted text somehow.
I bet you that the algorithm could be adjusted to consider comments that meet the following criteria:<p>(1) If user has the most upvoted comment in any thread
(2) Check if that thread had a lot of flamewar language.<p>If so, return that as the most hateful comment. I'm only half joking about using this approach.
On the other thread I said that it seems to be counting quoted text as my words.<p>It's a fun little app! Not sure how useful it is, but I do want to see how it develops.<p>I'd be really interested to see if there's any link between HN Avg karma and hn hater score.
@KevinMcAlear. I found a serious flaw in your algorithm's results.<p>Your own hate score is 3.61% Should not this post and the creation of Hater News itself up your score to 100%?<p>My own score is an even lower 2.06%. What gives? Maybe this comment will give me some points.
It would be nice to have the username used in a search added to the url of the results page, to make the results easily shareable.<p>Might have a look-see at the source.
This already made the front page once today before it was <i>nearly at the same moment</i><p>1) Taken down via HN hug of death<p>2) Nuked from orbit by mods.<p>Also I'm only at 2.5% I honestly figured I was far more toxic.