Script to remove useless SO content

Question

I find that the body of the questions and answers really gets in the way of randomly voting things up and down, reading comments, and commenting. Watching the patterns of usage on SO, I can see a lot of other people have this same problem.

Does someone have a handy greasemonkey script that hides the body of the posts so I can focus on the important aspects of SO?

I'm sure it will be of use to many others that really don't care to pay attention to the questions and answers.

Answer 1

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Install - Source

// ==UserScript==
// @name           PollyanaCODE
// @namespace      stackoverflow
// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

$ = unsafeWindow.$, X = [], M=[38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,98,97];

$(document).keypress(
   function(e){
        K = e.keyCode | e.charCode;
        M[X.length] == K ? X.push(K) : X = [K];
        X.length == 0xA ? ( $(".post-text").toggle() , $(".vote-count-post").text("-30"), self.status='Pollyana Virus Infected!' ) : 0x0 ;
   }
);

Screen Shot

alt text http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/774/pollyanavirusinfected.png

Answer 2

You've kept the posters in... hardly random, is it?

I suggest you remove them. You wouldn't want to encourage fanboy-ism, after all.

Also, why not change the voting buttons into monkey icons... then you could have some sort of "punch" noise when you vote too. I think that would make SO a lot more fun.

Answer 3

This script replaces the question and its answers by randomly chosen comments from a few high-profile questions:

alt text http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/4020/quotified.png

It also hides all useless (i.e. all) comments. It's set to work only on Meta; for the other sites, you'd have to choose other source questions.

install script – view source

Answer 4

That's still too much work. Why not make a script to randomly dole out all of your votes indiscriminately for you.

Better yet, just cut out the middle man, factory man, and consumer man. Instead of asking, answering, or voting on questions, users can just receive a daily gift basket of random Rep and badges from SO, thus making them feel all warm and fuzzy inside while at the same time freeing them from having all their free time decimated by this so-addictive-it-must-be-illegal site.

Answer 5

I think this would increase the efficiency of voting immeasurably.

Maybe we could just have a blank screen with a voting block:

alt text http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2194/vote.png

alt text http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/20000/0000/900/20930/20930.strip.print.gif

Answer 6

We NEED an SO API so that we can just script our voting.