Such a lovely place!
Thanks Paul Graham, @dang and @sctb for HN.
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
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#22dang / sctb: do you get alerts when we mention your usernames? You always seem to respond relatively quickly.
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#23> On any given day, its top links might include a Medium post about technical hiring Isn't it quite ironic to see the article suggesting that HN top link might include Medium post. I've usually read not-so-positive feedback about Medium posts. Isn't it the case?
Why not judge the post by the insightfulness of the content, rather than the domain from which it originates?
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#24Curious to know why this post has a "unvote" option. I don't recall seeing that before. Is there a link that explains what it does?
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#25> On any given day, its top links might include a Medium post about technical hiring Isn't it quite ironic to see the article suggesting that HN top link might include Medium post. I've usually read not-so-positive feedback about Medium posts. Isn't it the case?
All links on the front page are "top links".
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#26I've been reading "dang" as the word "dang!" without realising it's actually "dan g" all this time. :)
I thought it was a surname Dang.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
...and here we go again. What was, or at least felt, obvious was that there was a double standard being applied. Not just in the sense that such a witch hunt would be unlikely to happen to a man being lauded. But also that if there's one point that Hacker News could probably agree on it's that lines-of-code is a bad metric for evaluating programmers, let alone scientists. There was also the pervasive sense of being o…
If a man received personal acclaim for a discovery, and someone looked at the repo and found that someone other than the man wrote most of the crunchier code, then yes I'd evaluate the acclaim for the man the same way. Note most of the acclaim aimed at the scientist, rather than the team, was from the media. Whom as usual, likes to omit their own role.
But would you ever go and look at his repo?
If it is the case that she didn't contribute the most complicated stuff, then I can assure you it is not the first time in history that the face of a project is not the one that did the hardest work. Also as has repeatedly been said, she always said it was a team effort.
This is all said with the caveat that I didn't follow this 'controversy' and never cared to look at the contribution distribution of all the project members.
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#28Interesting that only 2 people can moderate million users
Millions of readers, the amount of active commenters is much lower.
In addition, HN doesn't get much of the "classic" troll crowd (no matter if 4chan/8chan/outright real Nazis/gamergate) or Trump supporters - from the occasional politics thread aside, there's nothing much of interest for them here, and so the biggest blocks of trolls simply stay away.
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#29My experience with dang have been limited to him accusing me of making a personal swipe and me trying convince him that's not the case.
I think sometimes overly sensitive moderation is not good.
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#30I've been reading "dang" as the word "dang!" without realising it's actually "dan g" all this time. :)
"Woo sh"!
Joking aside, if there were to be forum awards, Hacker News would top it all the time. Best moderated, high level, most interesting discussion forum award goes to ...