Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
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Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#2Meet the People Taking over Hacker News - by Paul Graham -- 3/29/2014
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-people-taking-over...
Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#3Fortunately he doesn't have to go through what moderators of mainstream social media sites have to go through (for which they often need long-term therapy), still, it feels unfair to saddle one man with so much of that.
Give him a nice long vacation already, the responsibility should probably be split among a 5-10 person team anyway.
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#4I wonder how does dang manage it everyday. HN moderation can be so tiring. There is multitude of comment types: insightful, accusatory, snarky etc. And dang does point out the egregious ones every time.
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#5I'd like to think that more than a few people grasp this. He's some kind of machine - in the best, complimentary way. His replies to emails are succinct, helpful, educational, and still personable. No idea how he retains his equanimity across hundreds/thousands of interactions, mostly with strangers. IMO it's a worthwhile lesson (and a free one) to peruse his comment history:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
Respect and many thanks, dang.
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#6Is this a volunteer role or a full-time job?
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#7Does it have to be this way?
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#8Is this a volunteer role or a full-time job?
I hope he gets to invest in the fund!
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#9So as it turns out the key to making Twitter less crap is leveraging Daniel Gackle clones.
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#10'sillysaurusx -- I respect your opinions. I know that I respect your opinions because you're able to use HackerNews as a bully pulpit to reach a very wide audience and I personally both enjoy and look forward to seeing your participation. I've often wished I had better opportunities to learn from you and always silently wish you well on your personal journey.
I also see from your Twitter reply that you feel HN hasn't necessarily been a great platform for your participation. I just want to counter that feeling with real-world result: I've read hundreds of your comments and at least a dozen of your submissions. I suspect HackerNews is actually a fantastically appropriate platform for you, and not an adversarial one.
At any rate, the disconnect between what I perceive as an outside observer vs. what you perceive as a "man in the arena"[0] is a fascinating phenomenon in its own right.
0: https://prisonist.org/quotes-we-love-theodore-roosevelt-man-...