A challenge I’ve frequently faced while using social media platforms like Discord or YouTube is standing out in the crowd of thousands of users and comments. These platforms generally don’t utilize methods to reward thoughtful discourse, but instead promote whatever garners the most short-term attention (spamming memes or generic responses). That left me wondering how I could programmatically boost the amount of attention that my messages get. After brainstorming some ways of accomplishing this, I decided to create a browser extension that prepends a string to the beginning of each post to visually distinguish them.