hn_debias
Removes, to some extent, the effect of voting in hacker news.
This is a chrome extension that will randomly scramble the order of sibling comments on hacker news.
Comment hierarchy is preserved..
In adition, grayed out comments are restyled the same style as normal comments.
Istallation
- Download or checkout this repository to a location of your preference
- In chrome, go to Preferences > extentions, enable developer mode and click "load unpacked extension"
- browse to the extension and install
Notes
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Why did you do this? Read the motivation here.
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Can you add this to the chrome app store?
No.
TODO
- Add simple on/off switch GUI
- Build as Tampermonkey script