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Before running the script, go to the "threads" page where your comment trees are listed, the link is in the top nav.
After running the script in your browser console, you'll end up with some output about your best and worst comments.Every comment that was found is also saved in `localStorage.my_comments` in case you want to do some further processing, and we can also share snippets of code that uses that, so not everyone have to always re-run the collection.
By using `localStorage.my_comments`, here is another addon-script that formats the top/worst list for HN and puts the output into your clipboard:
Please note that you need to run the script from the submission before you can run the above script.
Example output:
My top 3 comments:
- 180 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800744 - 2023-05-03T10:56:58 - Story: MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in... - Comment: "> Microsoft needs to think hard how hostile they want to be to its competitors and users, because tw"
- 107 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34788180 - 2023-02-14T12:01:03 - Story: BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid ... - Comment: "> If you're interested, you can get it (legally) in the UK here\n\nAnd if you happen to be belong to t"
- 76 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35264026 - 2023-03-22T17:06:50 - Story: DPReview is being archived by the Archive Team - Comment: "The title is wrong, Archive Team (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/) is behind these archiving efforts, "
My 3 worst comments:
- -4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35414789 - 2023-04-02T20:24:14 - Story: Windows Sandbox - Comment: "Except Docker containers doesn't actually run on Windows as they do on Linux (Linux containers that "
- -4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35236819 - 2023-03-20T18:59:55 - Story: ChatGPT is down - Comment: "It's also due to rumored invasion of the US.\n\nCome on, we can do better than spreading unverified \"r"
- -4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35153482 - 2023-03-14T15:49:54 - Story: null - Comment: "Ah, it seems you're one of many who confuses \"crypto\" with cryptography and cryptocurrency. Cryptogr"