Seeing many comments about how dang helped them get to the front-page... I guess many of us are just unlucky
Tell HN: Thank You Dang
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#142In an insane world, Hacker News is one corner of the internet that I find to be "normal" and "sane". God Bless you Dang!
Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
Professional moderation is expensive. Keeping HN as good as it is is literally dang's job, paid for by YCombinator (who benefit from it by using it to recruit and then promote startups).
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#143In an insane world, Hacker News is one corner of the internet that I find to be "normal" and "sane". God Bless you Dang!
Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
It is extremely tiring moderating a forum. PG even said it is worst than doing a Startup. And if you have done any sort of public forum moderation, you will know you could get burn out very quickly.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN discourages the sort of clever-yet-unsubstantial one-liner jokes that earn a lot of karma on Reddit. It reserves the space for thoughtful discussions. Getting rid of the memes simply doesn't fly in other online communities. I'd also put money on the average age of HN commenter being higher than that of other internet communities. I know of other rich and healthy online communities, but they are fairly niche.
HN is just another echo-chamber minus the puns.
trivially disproven
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#145Thank you dang, for being a good guardian of such a wonderful place. Thank you for your patience when I've gotten overly excited.
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#146I was a lurker on HN for years before I made my first account here, and dang was a name that kept popping up all over HN. I thought you were an addicted HN user at first, but after a while I got curious and read your post history, and that's when I figured out who you were. I genuinely have a hard time believing you are one person. HN being one of the most important tools that contributed to my growth as a developer…
Normally, pointing out misspellings is bad form, but I can't not point out that your spelling of “popping” was rather misfortunate. I think I know how it happened, since it happens to me all the time: The brain does a lot of its work in parallel, and in mine, at least, there seems to be a separate part of the brain responsible for doubling letters as I type. And this being somewhat asynchronous, it occasionally doubles the wrong letter. (I don't know if the analysis is accurate, but the phenomenon is quite real.)
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#147For a very long time, I had no idea HN had any sort of moderation and I can never remember thinking that it should. I think that's a great tell about the quality of work that dang is doing here.
Thank you, dang!
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#148I would like to add a thanks to all the HN contributors (well, the vast majority at least) for following dang's lead and making this such a pleasant and informative forum.
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#149Thanks, Dang! Also: thanks, HN community. I learned an incredible lot from you, from both the content posted as well as the comments here. But this community wouldn't be here without you, Dang!
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#150I aspire to be in Dang's position in my retirement years!!