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Ask YC: Notable People On YC

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Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

#11

Post by dfranke »

RTM, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm

And though it'd be a stretch to call them notable, people I at least heard of before they came here:

Colin Perciva (FreeBSD security officer; Putnam winner): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva

John Graham-Cummings (active in the anti-spam community; caused a firestorm when he submitted Reddit to Digg and got censored): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc

Doug Renert (partner at Tandem E.): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DougR

and I think ESR might lurk here occasionally.

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

#12

Post by smanek »

It seems like that there is a reason that names are tiny/gray: we should judge what is said on its merit, not based on who said it.

I've had the good fortune to know and work with some extremely smart people, and none of them is always right. How is it useful to be able to follow all of X's comments?

I've found that the moderation system here is fairly good at separating the wheat from the chaff. Far more so than identity is, at least.

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

#16

Post by jgrahamc »

dfranke wrote: post #11

RTM, of course: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm And though it'd be a stretch to call them notable, people I at least heard of before they came here: Colin Perciva (FreeBSD security officer; Putnam winner): http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cperciva John Graham-Cummings (active in the anti-spam community; caused a firestorm when he submitted Reddit to Digg and got censored): http://news.ycombinator.com…

I'm notable?

Re: Ask YC: Notable People On YC

#19

Post by chris_l »

smanek wrote: post #12

It seems like that there is a reason that names are tiny/gray: we should judge what is said on its merit, not based on who said it. I've had the good fortune to know and work with some extremely smart people, and none of them is always right. How is it useful to be able to follow all of X's comments? I've found that the moderation system here is fairly good at separating the wheat from the chaff. Far more so than ide…

The point here being that these people are notable for a reason. I expect to find disproportionately more useful/insightful comments from them on their subjects than from the average user, including myself.
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