I got a series of "lol" popup dialogs, then was pushed out of the room and returned to Hacker News. I was fairly frightened by this turn of events and won't return using my normal browser without some assurances that I'm not going to be victimized. I guess I'll fire up a virgin firefox profile and try some more.
On the user interface side, it would make sense if any line starting with "/" was interpreted as a command (legit or not). Otherwise, you'll have a lot of "/help" and so forth in the channels. Especially since "/print" is a valid command.
Update: Not sure, but I think someone has now injected some JS which causes everyone else in the channel to continuously spam it with the word "crash". Good times...
On the user interface side, it would make sense if any line starting with "/" was interpreted as a command (legit or not). Otherwise, you'll have a lot of "/help" and so forth in the channels. Especially since "/print" is a valid command.
Update: Not sure, but I think someone has now injected some JS which causes everyone else in the channel to continuously spam it with the word "crash". Good times...