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RiderOfGiraffes scripted a bot that would do that automatically, but others here thought it was some cheap novelty trick he was pulling.

Yeah I remember. Freaking good idea and well executed, destroyed by a small but vocal bunch of whiners.

It was certainly novel, and probably cheap. In most other discussions on HN, that combination would be regarded as a good thing.

I don't really know what caused some - few? - people to have a fit. Maybe anything that remotely reminds them of reddit calls for outrage.