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Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by malikNF »

hanche wrote: post #146
malikNF wrote: post #121

I 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 doubl…

Haha good catch. A bit embarrassing for me, but this is hilarious. Thank you for pointing it out.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by amelius »

Magodo wrote: post #70
E-Reverance wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.

There are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled

> Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled

I think it's quite funny that the UI we prefer is so different from the ones we create in our daytime jobs. And it's also very different from the UIs in most "Show HN" posts.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

Hear hear. Thanks dang, you set the gold standard for moderation. Or, if you prefer, you set a high bar for moderation. To mix metaphors painfully, you set a gold bar. Which just goes to show how valuable good moderation is.
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