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"I feel badly because the mechanism that allows me to feel is broken."

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang reference, love it.

Skimming over the problems, I am reminded how quickly internet forums devolve into hateful banter.

Currently filled with incredibly depressing, offensive nonsense...

I think it is a cool idea. Kind of like snapchat for status updates. We all could use some letting out of built up feelings every now and then

Allow me to vote up the good ones.

What is a good one?

What is a good one? One could start by skipping the racial epithets and crude sexual references... and the spammy oft-repeated ones... and...

Wasn't sure how to enable upvoting without requiring sign up. Maybe require an email or captcha per upvote?

I'd start with just using a cookie to prevent repeat voting.

s/prevent/mildly discourage

...which is probably enough to start making the site usable.

I agree that it prevents not at all against even the least sophisticated of scripts, but in practice it will probably make an impact.

Looks like most facebook news feeds I've seen.

I disagree, they don't look like ads.

I tried to give someone a "hug" but asterisks aren't allowed :(

There should be an automated button for this: "hug"

Maybe actions in general could be nice.

See also the Usenet group alt.cuddle with a FAQ here (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.cuddle/faq%7C...)

Nope. {{hug}} elicits --> "Comment - Please only use letters, numbers, and punctuation."

http://www.blabdash.com/statements/700

Intentions are good. Wish the internet was too.

Default Bootstrap just doesn't feel right for this kind of thing :(

A 'posted (time) ago' thing on the main page would be nice. And the textareas could use some additional padding sometimes (http://puu.sh/3OGbF.png)

http://www.blabdash.com/statements/589

> I feel stupid because I made this website.

> This is just a hello world ROR app that accidentally got posted on Hacker News

It's not clear which punctuation marks are not considered punctuation...

This reminds me of a project by another HN user, @zackattack's compassionpit.com. I think it's shut down now but it was growing last time I spoke with him - you're probably onto something.

Add the ability to get emailed when someone replies to what you wrote

good idea!

You need a home button once a comment has been submitted!

Maybe Amen ( https://getamen.com/) will buy this?

Here is an older one: http://www.hatebook.com

It needs to be a super dynamic reddit/HN where the order of posts change every second!

Pretty boring if you ask me..

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