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Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

Possible bug report:

The user RiderOfGiraffes is claimed to have used the F word. Searching through their comments I can find no such usage, but the replies to their comments are consistent with the count given. I think the count is incorrectly including occurrences in replies by other people to comments.

Added in edit:

Following the suggestion from elsewhere I've tracked down the problem. It's counting the "Fuk" in Fukushima, the "funk" in "jazz funk", and the "Fack" in "Fack to Brunt".

So that's wrong, being mislead by the results from the search engine's false matches.

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Now fixed. RiderOfGiraffes's conviction is now quashed. Thanks for your help, and my head hangs in shame!

Same with me, I doubt I've used the f word in comments.

But holy cow! Close to 15k submissions now.

The karma/comment ratio is obviously with total karma (including submission karma). I think if you only counted comment karma (no idea if that's possible) I wouldn't have either of the comment badges.

I also had a badge for the F-word about 30 mins ago), which I am pretty sure was wrong. However, having checked again just now it has disappeared.

I'm not sure what to make of badges being bestowed on HN. It's rather like walking into a civil service interview and finding the panel wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking colourful cocktails. A generous gesture, regardless, and it brought a smile to my face.

Edit to add: just noticed that while I was commenting, quickthrower2 posted to say that they'd fixed the problem. Nice one!

Does this imply that you can get another badge just by using the word fuck in a comment?

> Does this imply that you can get another badge just by using the word fuck in a comment?

Perhaps, but it would be a bit immature to do so. Or even to quote someone else doing so.

>> Does this imply that you can get another badge just by using the word fuck in a comment?

> Perhaps, but it would be a bit immature to do so. Or even to quote someone else doing so.

Yeah I shudder to think about how gamification in this way will change the discourse here.

>>> Does this imply that you can get another badge just by using the word fuck in a comment?

>> Perhaps, but it would be a bit immature to do so. Or even to quote someone else doing so.

>Yeah I shudder to think about how gamification in this way will change the discourse here.

So do I. There could be some serious fucking repercussions from this.

Looks like you just did, assuming that's what "Colorful" means. (I'm on mobile so just have to guess at the badge meanings.)

Edit: Oh, apparently that's not what "Colorful" means at all.

Oh apparently you have to use fuck in two comments. And it has to be over a certain percentage of your total comments. Also you can get a badge by mentioning Rick Astley. Hilarious.

> Oh apparently you have to use fuck in two comments. And it has to be over a certain percentage of your total comments. Also you can get a badge by mentioning Rick Astley. Hilarious.

Congratulations on reaching your quota :)

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