This is just brilliant. Any site that has an issue with toxic comments could really use this.

I could see a system similar to this working into a temp "shadowban" system, where, if a poster starts spamming up a forum or comments section, said banned users' posts can't be seen by anyone else but the poster, and all discussion threads created after the "ban" by said poster are discarded, _but_ still show up as if they were successfully posted.

This could help clean up a lot of "OH ME TOO LOL" or "first post" posters if they're trying to get around those filters, without the user realizing he's been banned and start retaliating.

A bit of a "12 year old" filter, if you will. :-)

I don't get all the negativity. I read a lot of blogs where there's 90% civil discourse and just keeping in touch with people. If you happen to have a huge site with a lot of drive-by traffic, why not just disable comments?

Can you please take my money?

EDIT: Wait, you're not the creator. Forgot this was not a ShowHN thread.

I wish I came up with this. I've never been a fan of ecmascript, but this was certainly an exception and endless fun.

I am however working on a server-side version that is just a simple perl cgi that stores comments in a file named after the users IP address. That way any browser at their location will see their message. Maybe I will put it on github if I spend enough time to do it right.

this is brilliant, needs some local robot code to argue..achem "converse" with the commenter. bonus points for multiple robot personalities, misspellings and foul language.

okay.. still looking at this - you know you've got internet awesome when its :

a) totally "relevant" after being around 4 years

b) has 1000s of github stars and 100+ of forks :)

..down voted, hmmm, that was a serious comment.

This is evil, I love it

Someone stole HN's source?!

I hate to break it to ya, but...

haha -- I actually opened up inspector to check hn localstorage ;) ;)