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Google Chrome extension to find "most thanked" post in a thread!

  • 10-01-2014 7:22pm
    #1
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭


    I've been experimenting with chrome extensions as a hobby lately and I wanted to build one for boards.ie so I decided I'd make an extension to scan through the first 100 or so posts on a thread and find the 'most thanked' post. Sometimes all I want to see in a thread is the wittiest reply, the best argument, funniest link etc. and I think the 'most thanked' post often shows this.

    You might find it to be useless but I thought I'd let ye know it's there anyway!
    Here's the link: <snip>

    It's fairly simple; just install it, open any thread, click the icon which appears in the address bar.

    Feedback, questions etc. welcome! :)


Comments

  • #2
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    No need, usually something "witty" on the first page


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It's not working on Firefox.


  • #4
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    TheSetMiner wrote: »
    I've been experimenting with chrome extensions as a hobby lately and I wanted to build one for boards.ie so I decided I'd make an extension to scan through the first 100 or so posts on a thread and find the 'most thanked' post. Sometimes all I want to see in a thread is the wittiest reply, the best argument, funniest link etc. and I think the 'most thanked' post often shows this.

    You might find it to be useless but I thought I'd let ye know it's there anyway!
    Here's the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mbdopegcoeemgpnbfiobaihbipnicplh

    It's fairly simple; just install it, open any thread, click the icon which appears in the address bar.

    Feedback, questions etc. welcome! :)

    should make it so you can pick a user and have it thank all their posts


  • #5
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's not working on Firefox.

    Its working on Internet Explorer 4 fine?


  • #6
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    ''Access your tabs and Browsing history''


    Im Out!!!!!


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  • #7
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's not working on Firefox.

    Uh... it's a google chrome extension?


  • #8
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    Didn't work for me mate. Just jumped to the very last tab I had open.

    Good idea though, best of luck with it.

    EDIT: Got it working, just closed everything and reopened.


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    TheSetMiner wrote: »
    Uh... it's a google chrome extension?
    And?

    You wanted feedback? I'm telling you it's not working on Firefox.

    edit; not working on Opera either.


  • #10
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    major bill wrote: »
    ''Access your tabs and Browsing history''


    Im Out!!!!!

    that's standard man. You get that notification downloading any extension. I was skeptical at first too.


  • #11
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And?

    You wanted feedback? I'm telling you it's not working on Firefox.

    edit; not working on Opera either.

    Oh, well I'm not able to program firefox extensions. Sorry man.


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  • #12
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    Daqster wrote: »
    Didn't work for me mate. Just jumped to the very last tab I had open.

    Good idea though, best of luck with it.

    Oh are you sure you're using it on a thread where this is at least one post with two or more 'thanks'?


  • #13
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    TheSetMiner wrote: »
    Oh, well I'm not able to program firefox extensions. Sorry man.
    No worries.

    By the way, I just checked, seems to be working in Chrome.:)


  • #14
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Tried it there

    Good idea, ive often gone into threads where I wanted to see most thanks or best thanks, examples: Best Joke you ever heard or You laugh you lose,


    one suggestion to make it a very good extension is to make it descend from best thanked.


  • #15
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    No worries.

    By the way, I just checked, seems to be working in Chrome.:)

    A chrome extension working in chrome? well that is odd behaviour


  • #16
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    TheSetMiner wrote: »
    Oh are you sure you're using it on a thread where this is at least one post with two or more 'thanks'?

    Edited that post now, have it working. Just switched it off and back on again. Who knew!

    I tried it the Photos That Shook The World thread (which has almost 3000 posts) and it came back with this post that has 327 thanks, is that correct?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63178806


  • #17
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    Daqster wrote: »
    Edited that post now, have it working. Just switched it off and back on again. Who knew!

    I tried it the Photos That Shook The World thread (which has almost 3000 posts) and it came back with this post that has 327 thanks, is that correct?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63178806

    It will only scan through the first 100 posts in a thread because any more and it would slow down calculations a lot, and the 'most thanked' post is usually in the first 100 anyway.
    I got this post when I ran it: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63210991

    hmmm...


  • #18
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    TheSetMiner wrote: »
    It will only scan through the first 100 posts in a thread because any more and it would slow down calculations a lot, and the 'most thanked' post is usually in the first 100 anyway.
    I got this post when I ran it: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63210991

    hmmm...

    I got the same


    It appears to be working, throws up some interesting results, the you laugh you lose best thanked was surprising considering the number of posts


  • #19
    seligehgit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    It appears to work OP,thanks.


  • #20
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    Glad to hear it is working for most :-)


  • #21
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Isn't this kinda like a programmatic justification of low attention span? :)


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  • #22
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    anncoates wrote: »
    Isn't this kinda like a programmatic justification of low attention span? :)

    Yeah I guess


  • #23
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Some men... just want to watch the world burn.


  • #24
    Plumpynutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Plumpynutt


    Cool idea OP, downloaded and installed. Working without an issue for me


  • #25
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    The OP in "Let's all laugh at people with depression" has 2121 thanks.


  • #26
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    Plumpynutt wrote: »
    Cool idea OP, downloaded and installed. Working without an issue for me

    Glad to hear! It was something I did out of boredom more than anything but it would be cool if it was useful to some people!


  • #27
    donegal.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,635 ✭✭✭donegal.


    TheSetMiner wrote: »

    Feedback, questions etc. welcome! :)

    judging by your sarky replies they don't seem to be that welcome.

    good idea for an extension.


  • #28
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Dosnt work for me using Chrome on my mobile telecommunications device...


  • #29
    Miss Behaviour
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 39 ✭Miss Behaviour


    Can't you just uses boards search function?

    Search a thread for *:* and then sort the posts by most thanked.


  • #30
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Nerd!!


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  • #31
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    donegal. wrote: »
    judging by your sarky replies they don't seem to be that welcome.

    good idea for an extension.

    Haha I only gave as good as I got there to be fair!


  • #32
    TheSetMiner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭TheSetMiner


    Miss Behaviour wrote: »
    Can't you just uses boards search function?

    Search a thread for *:* and then sort the posts by most thanked.

    Oh that's a pretty cool idea, how do you sort them though?


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TheSetMiner wrote: »
    Oh that's a pretty cool idea, how do you sort them though?

    By "most thanks" :D

    There's also a thanks tab on the homepage.

    Now run, run before the admins see you tryna pimp your shit and you have to invent a chrome extension for getting out of prison.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Update: I've had a word with Admin because I wasn't really sure about this at all at all, and they are happy for this to be posted in the web development forum :)


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