# Idea: text highlighter

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372 "2016-07-15T19:07:46Z")
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### Author: ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372/1 "2016-07-15T19:07:46Z")

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Hey guys. It’s me again, the crazy-idea guy 🙂

Ok, so the basic idea is simple: would be nice to have something similar to [Medium.com](http://Medium.com), where you can empathize a portion of a text and then do some super basic voting on that highlight (i.e. +1, -1)

The idea behind this is that although a reply can be an absolute genius work, it can contain a phrase that is total garbage (or vice versa).

What do you think guys, it make sense?

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372/2 "2016-07-15T19:08:26Z")

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This was suggested elsewhere here, might be good to try and find that discussion.

This may be it  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/mediums-annotation-commenting-system-a-good-inspiration/10983](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mediums-annotation-commenting-system-a-good-inspiration/10983)

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### Author: ![iamntz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iamntz/32/114670_2.png) [@iamntz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iamntz)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372/3 "2016-07-15T19:09:19Z")

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I searched before, without much luck.

Mostly because i searching for „highlight”, not for „annotation”. Thanks!

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372/4 "2016-07-15T19:10:36Z")

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Yeah, I had the benefit of vaguely remembering what was stated prior, so my search fu was only better due to that prior knowledge 🙂

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/idea-text-highlighter/47372/5 "2016-07-15T23:30:50Z")

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