Tell HN: Thank You Dang • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

erikbye wrote: post #165

kendallpark wrote: post #86

Earlier 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.

A good majority of HNers may also be Redditors.

Many probably are. The ones that do well on both sites know how to adjust their comments to match the site they’re on.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

bolmaster2 wrote: post #201

Thank you, Dang! I didn't know about you until I read this thread. Is it really just _one_ moderator on HN? I imagine it's more than a full-time job to manage that...

Just one full-time moderator I believe.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

ParadiseEclipse wrote: post #141

Seeing many comments about how dang helped them get to the front-page... I guess many of us are just unlucky

Hacker News is small enough that dang will probably see a decent fraction of your content. The best way to get to the front page remains submitting quality content.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

graham_paul wrote: post #179

where is he? why is he not posting here? is dang even real? maybe dang is just the acronym for the AI system of a new startup being incubated at YC

I mean, it’s Thanksgiving holidays.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by originalvichy » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

I wake up every morning to great content. Thanks HN Community and dang!

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by echelon » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 7:26 PM UTC

vinitagr wrote: post #71

echelon wrote: post #57

Dang helped promote my "Show HN" side project to the front page [1], and that in turn got it worldwide press coverage [2,3,4,5]. But beyond that, I'm super appreciative for keeping the community consistently amazing throughout the years. I've seen heated discussions here. Dang always offers constructive guidance when discourse devolves or gets off topic. It's never preachy, and it usually leads to amicable results wh…

Nice Deep Fake

I'm not sure why you got downvoted, because that's actually something in my post. Thanks for the compliment, and sorry for your downvotes. Take this thank you instead. :(

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by NateEag » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #192

Please, for the good of humanity, lock Dang in a room with an unlabeled set of comment training data and make an AlphaDang. Unleashing the benevolent AlphaDang moderation AI across the internet will salvage the web, and ultimately all of mankind.

If you believe this will work, you have not understood what makes dang so good at his job.

He's a thoughtful, understanding, caring human being, not a big pile of auto-correlating code.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by skoocda » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 8:07 PM UTC

Thank you Dang!

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by doc_gunthrop » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

lkbm wrote: post #199

erikbye wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? Controversial opinions are downvoted here, too. The Overton window is real.

The Overton window is real, but it's fairly wide open. I could post a pro-socialism argument and get upvoted, I could post a pro-capitalism argument and get upvoted. I could criticize GMOs, or praise them. I could probably defend Trump if I'm thoughtful about it, or decry him. Can I say "Capitalism/Socialism/GMOs/Trump is dumb" and get upvoted? No. Can I point out problems (or benefits) of them? Yes--so long as I'm n…

When a post involves gender and/or race, the Overton window is quite narrow. Those appear to be the most controversial with the comments section filled with snark and polemics.

Re: Tell HN: Thank You Dang

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Post by Digit-Al » Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

Debug_Overload wrote: post #125

Magodo wrote: post #70

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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 This was actually my only quibble with HN. I love the simplicity and the fact that HN doesn't suffer from the "obesity" that plagues modern websites, but I felt it could use some features. For instance, the ability to filter it by time (it does have that filter already for days, months and so on, but not hours), or have an official app for the site could be awesome.…

The only feature I'd like is to be able to collapse threads. When there's lots of comments it can sometimes be almost impossible to work out what comment someone is replying to.