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Who are your favorite commenters on Hacker News? Now you can filter by them.

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18 pointsakkartik12 comments

Also, given enough use, this system would output some interesting information about who the highly-thought-of commenters are. (It's like an upvote, but I think data that reflects actual usage of a system is more honest than data that users say reflects their opinion. Think del.icio.us vs. yahoo directory.)

Pretty gameable, too.

People should link to their analogous lists of favorites in the comments here. That would be cool. Aggregating them into statistics is where it becomes gameable, but just having those links raw creates an ad hoc and transparent trust network.

Or maybe you can aggregate the short-lists and generate a report in a few weeks that showcases the most tracked users.

Or the most-tracked users by users you're tracking.

It would be nice to have a way of adding friends inside news.ycombinator.com. This site has to turn into a social network eventually...

This is amazingly cool and showcases the power of the web and the spirit of mashups. Only an open platform allows stuff like this. Thanks!

Voted up just because my name is on the shortlist ;) Seriously, though, this is nice.

cool hack, but I like to read everyones comments

Are you able to keep up with the volume on YC? I find I'm missing a lot over just the time I sleep.

If you're not going to be able to catch it all then it's much better to try out different filtering approaches (this is just a prototype) than to leave the filtering to chance. So went my reasoning.

lol, yeah I can keep up but I am new here so just follow what I have commented on for the moment.

you want to ignore everyone new? just like that?

1. I'm not suggesting people only use this interface. I myself do not. But it helps me make sure that I have greater coverage over at least the known sources of interesting stuff, with the rest getting the same random sampling as before.

2. This is just a prototype. There are other ways to filter stuff and I'm exploring those as well.

3. If and when Hacker News suffers a huge influx of new users, this tool will help me sift through them on my own schedule without causing me to lose my old 'friends' in the meantime.

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