It is ironic that HN has not yet been monetized like metafilter was.
Look at the URL. It’s monetized. HN is a marketing arm of Y Combinator. HN contributed significantly to Y Combinator’s early success.
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)
#92Posts like these, for me, highlight the class divide. PG thinks "few people" grasp how much effort dang expends, when in reality, a whole class of people working in customer service roles expend roughly the same amount of effort. Sure, dang might be uniquely efficient, but the expenditure of effort is on the same order. I once witnessed a Delta employee in ATL process a queue of customers, all with issues regarding t…
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Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#93Off topic, but I just realized I’ve been saying his username wrong in my head for years.
Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#94Well if he’s busy banning people for political ideologies when in reality he’s running a message board with the technology from 1995
HN isn't the place for politics. If I was a zealous liberal or a zealous right wing nutjob I'd imagine I'd get roughly equal treatment.
Moreso, it’s a place for thoughtful discussion. I’ve seen great comments from people I’ve disagreed with get lots of positive attention, and trolling comments from people I agree with downvoted into oblivion. I respect that.
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#95I'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=d…
Echo'd. Respect and many thanks, dang. Paul really should fund an AI startup focused on chatboard moderation based solely on learnings-from-dang.
Is the one thing we’ve learned that you need multiple human (or one dang) mods for a successful social media sites?
Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#96Sometimes when I see an especially good comment on hacker news I click on the name and read through other things they've written. You find really insightful stuff this way. One day I see dang write a comment that was really interesting about how threads tend to develop over time, like some kind of law of webforums. I thought "ah ha! I'll go read a bunch of Dan's comments. I bet those are good." But if you go look his…
I’d buy that book in an instant
Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#97Off topic, but I just realized I’ve been saying his username wrong in my head for years.
It’s ALWAYS Chinese in my head. I was blown away to find out about this Dan Gackle business
Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only recall getting danged once and it was spot-on. I wasn’t acting like a full on flaming ass, but there was at least a glowing ember there and he phrased his response in a way that made it easy to accept.
On an older account I once had a factual comment detached whilst the other person his comment (which pretty much stated the polar opposite) stayed under the main post. Looking at which other comments stayed or got detached it was quite easy to see an enormous bias. Pointing that out, all I got was a vague “I understand you are passionate”. I think that’s the only time I’ve ever seen him miss his stride, though.
Link?
Re: Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN (2020)
#99As dang is shadowbanning people, I cannot agree with many of the popular sentiments expressed. I think shadowbanning is unjust, and if is someone is violating the rules nonstop they should be made aware of it through notice and an actual ban.
How else to keep a community stable and civil, where by definition civil must contain attributes that will always offend some of the audience?
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