Spot great Reddit comments by adding color-coded badges that measure relative awesomeness
Reddit comment threads are hard to read. Relative Reddit makes great comments easy to spot within a thread by adding a color-coded badge next to each comment's score. The brighter the color, the better the comment.
99% of Reddit comments are responses to other comments. That's what makes a conversation in Reddit. But there are nuggets of brilliance buried in these comment threads that we skim over because they are 2 or 3 levels deep. When someone responds to another comment with a witty joke or brilliant comeback, a heartfelt story, or maybe the answer to a question, you want to know about it. Relative Reddit will highlight these comments so that you can easily spot them as you scroll through a comment list.
Relative Reddit works by comparing a comment's score to the score of the comment it's responding to. A typical comment receives about half the upvotes that its parent did, as Redditors stop reading a thread and thus stop upvoting. Take the following example:
- (1,000 upvotes)
- (500 upvotes)
- (800 upvotes)
- (500 upvotes)
In this example, whatever was posted in comment three is worth reading because it got 1.6x the number of upvotes that its parent comment got! For whatever reason, people love this comment. Relative Reddit makes it easy to spot such a comment when it comes along with a color-coded badge.
RelativeReddit is presently only available for Chrome. Install the extension from the Chrome web store at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lkkanogkeefbgmcjihgjmcginkjamkfp.
The extension does not require any access to any personal data and won't ask you any questions. You can inspect the source code in this project if you're curious what it does do.
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Relative Reddit is licensed under the MIT license.