A Pre-History of Slashdot
I never publicly announced this but I loved Slashdot’s friend/foe system so much that I built it as a cross browser extension for Hacker News. It’s called Hacker Smacker and it’s on GitHub.<p><a href="https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/samuelclay/hackersmacker</a><p>Supports not only friends and foes but also friends of friends and foes of friends. Makes it easy to scan the HN homepage and comment threads and see what’s good. Much like how Slashdot’s friend foe system highlighted the good stuff in threads.