a man who comments on social media threads with uninteresting, annoying, over-familiar, or just downright patronizing replies.
This software: A smart contract to post content-addressed comments to a URL.
deployed to ethereum: 0x45087c040150843e44580e5d32a69eddb6a40e26
As to monetize my blog, https://proofinprogress.com, I'm considering adding a social feature that allows readers to share their opinion under my posts for a small bribe. See, on Hacker News, I've have had hundreds of annoying, over-familiar or downright patronizing replies about my articles, so I thought: Why not monetize this sad facet of my life! "replyguy" is that code. Here's how it works!
As a man, occassionally posting uninteresting, annoying, over-familiar or downright patronizing replies myself, I just hate being censored for that. So "replyguy" prevents it.
By submitting a hash of the post's URL and a hash of the reply itself, "replyguy" ensures that all comments and their relation to a post's URL remain permanently stored on Ethereum. "replyguy," from a replyguy for replyguys.
replyguys using "replyguy" hash-digest the blog post's URL and their
patronizing comment to then call function comment(bytes32 url, bytes32 text) external payable. The catch is that this function costs! So replyguying isn't
free anymore.
Here's some pseudocode on how that would work:
const url = keccak256("https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2021-02-22/ethereum-isnt-fun-anymore.html");
const text = keccak256("Wow man, this is really a weak take! You're such a dumbass");
Replyguy.comment{value: 0.01 ether}(url, text);
As you can see, the post's URL and the patronizing comment are hashed using
keccak256 and then the contract's function comment is called, but 0.01 ether is sent along too. This amount, by the way, is configurable so that true
replyguy price discovery is enabled.
OK everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Yes, lemme license this as GPL-3.