Show HN: TrollBlock, It's Okay to Dislike

I don't know about others, but anything that requires me to log in with Facebook ends up stopping me from using it because I don't want all my contacts to see that I signed up for it.

It sounds interesting, however the dependency on Facebook makes me not want to even try it. What about it requires Facebook integration?

I was thinking that this was going to be a filter on HN that blocked the comments by people you didn't like. That would be kind of a cool project. Basically, you could click "hide" and no longer see comments by a particular person. Over time, it could use clustering and machine learning to decide which comments you should see.

I see a list of "Most disliked users" and "Most blocked users" once I'm logged in. That seems like this is going to be a competition to be blocked with people intentionally acting like trolls. I wouldn't want to spend time on the site if that's what ends up happening.

Startup Weekend Project!<p>Reason you should use it? By default you receive everyones posts. It's up to you to block who and what you don't want to see.<p>Check it out! Thanks.

We built this during Startup Weekend San Jose this weekend. It's built on node.js, socket.io, mongodb, redis and knockoutjs on the front end. Check it out - social networking in reverse!

The way your HN title is written it makes your project look like a fb plug in or somthing. You may be more direct in what is your interesting project about.

Other attempts from the past: <a href="http://fiendster.com" rel="nofollow">http://fiendster.com</a>

I feel like this is exactly what's going on with the HN G+ circle. About 80% are reposters, who I immediately remove from circles, about 15% post interesting stuff, and about 5% are just people sort of worth following like Linus Torvalds and Richard Branson.

I would definitely try it if for no other reason than the novelty. But I don't enjoy logging into facebook to check facebook... much less logging into facebook to check some other social networking site.<p>Cool idea, though.

This is a case where using Bootstrap didn't help them with having a clean design out of the gate.<p>I like the idea, but there is pretty much no way I'm going to authenticate with Facebook, simply because it looks so unprofessional and ugly.<p>A few simple changes, like not using the purple on grey, not using the color pink at all (there are lots of sites that will help you generate a good color pallet), and being more consistent with your padding between rows, would go a long way.

I actually think this solves some serious problems.<p>I think most non-trolls don't realize how powerful the 'dislike' button is. With a like or upvote button, you don't do anything by way of separating trolls from real content. That's what the 'no' is for, and websites shouldn't be afraid of that.<p>Seriously, from here on out it should rapid cross-platform expansion. I'm looking at you, Youtube.

I like the idea, and tried to share the site on Facebook. For some reason it came out with just the link and no descriptive text (usually you get the first few sentences from the page, which you can then edit). Something in the way the code is being generated, maybe?

Just FYI - site appears to be down at the moment. Overloaded?<p>Confirmed by <a href="http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/trollblock.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/trollblock.com</a>

I think it would be funny if you started out blocked by everyone since you are the owner, sort of a joke at Tom from Myspace.<p>And that's an interested idea, how do you think user growth will affect this model?

Heads up: remove the comma between "are friends" and "with everyone."

Misspelling on front page with "consantly"..<p>"The content that you see is consantly changing based on who is using TrollBlock"

After reading the front page, it's not obvious to me why anyone would use this. What is the use case you had in mind?

Interesting idea, I'll definitely try it once I can login some other way.

HN effect? Site is down.

I think it's hilarious and I'm proud to link it to FB :)

Finally!

Guys, don't listent to wrong feedback coming out of... whatever. Trollblock is an awesome resource for trolling and you should stick to that idea. Comments should be hella funny and yeah, keep the facebook login. Otherwise u'll have a bunch of weirdo nazis screaming out loud. Cool stuff!