Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News(hn-trustspark.com)
44 points by solaire_oa 2 days ago | 19 comments
- mentalgear 1 hour agoIt's a nice idea, but I have mostly stopped using/installing any software that is not open-source a long time ago. So, please open-source it, especially if you want users to truly trust it.
Even then, I would recommend anyone to install (small to mid) browser extensions by cloning and inspecting the source and just then loading it yourself - if you don't know: any browser extension can read input/password fields across all site(s) you gave it access to (yeah, it's crazy but unfortunately true).
[-]- smusamashah 30 minutes agoThis could become/converted to a userscript making it easy to inspect and more cross compatible. It's very easy these days.
- bryanhogan 46 minutes agoInteresting idea, wondering if the 4 bars are a good way to evaluate accounts.
Some more thoughts:
1. The website needs a description of what this project even is.
2. Open-source the code, especially since it's just for the community, I'd be vary of installing "some random" extension from the store.
3. The modal element in the iFrame on the website is cutoff on mobile widths using Firefox.
- cpa 3 hours agoInteresting, but how is the trust signal measured? I couldn’t find this information[-]
- annie511266728 2 hours agoIf it’s not transparent, it kind of defeats the whole idea of a “trust” signal — at that point it’s just a number you either believe or ignore.
- cobertos 2 hours agoI'm pretty sure it's based off of the configuration in the green gear in the top right of the iframe. You can inspect the ways it's calculated from karma, comments, etc etc[-]
- CalRobert 1 hour agoIf you look at the config it's based on karma, comments, submission rate, comment rate (optional), and account age (that is, if you trust it actually uses the config how it says)[-]
- angry_octet 2 minutes agoThere are some high karma accounts which make a great contribution, and others which ... don't. I'm doubtful whether karma or account age has a significant signal beyond anti-spam.
But it would be useful to know if I had up/down voted them significantly in the past.
- onli 1 hour agoSuggestion: instead of just popping in the computed graphic add a placeholder immediately - four low grey bars should work well, in the same width as the final sparkline graphics. That way the text on the page will not jump later when the final sparklines are ready.
- neom 1 hour agoGreat idea! I've been running my own chrome plugin I made that is similar, but recently discovered this: https://oj-hn.com/ and intend to start to contribute to it as it's very good and hope it grows. Something like Sparklines would be great in oj also for us chrome users, I really like the Sparklines implementation.
- adrianwaj 3 hours agoGreat idea.
I think friend/foe and trust signals should come from a user's voting. So I think it should operate transparently to the user and there should be a default shade-out option of bad actors, but with the option to view. So it's set-and-forget. On the backend - could you make it so if you've never visited HN before, and you install the plugin, the experience changes accordingly?
I had the idea to setup a forum somewhere else - this sort of functionality would come in handy as part of normal operation.
- arjie 59 minutes agoI considered something like this but I find the UX of information too noisy. In practice, I much prefer simply performing a ternary block/leave alone/highlight functionality. And it's comments that bother me more than links.
- alex7o 2 hours agoWhere can I see mine?[-]
- CalRobert 1 hour agoInstall the plugin and then load up your profile page, or any page with ac omment from you (like this one)
You have an overall 7 out of 8.
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- Izmaki 1 hour agoGreat way to gatekeep new contributors trying to be helpful with news. Run the link through URL Scan if you’re paranoid…
- nickphx 1 hour agoNo, thank you.
- gyanchawdhary 1 hour agothis UX is basically the (not so clever) equivalent of that blue tick status signal nonsense they have on insta ..
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- aaron695 2 hours ago[dead]