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Like 80% of dead comments I see here are actually very valuable and reasoned.
I have dead turned on and haven't seen this myself. Any examples?
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#112This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.
I feel that everyone likes @dang but he’s still underrated. Seriously good mod - exceptional, in fact.
Dan has helped define for me what thoughtful moderation looks like. Not everyone likes dang, but this website is my Third Place and I am so thankful for the hard work (from Dan and everyone who participates here with integrity) that keeps it alive.
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HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now not-so-wild west. Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off. As more and more young'uns join and jaded vete…
It's definitely only a great, good place from a certain perspective. People I respect greatly refer to "the orange site" as "toxic", "misanthropic" or "misogynistic" and full of "microdosing" "VC worshipping wankers" who don't read TFA. It's definitely taken a different path than the one it was on c.2010 where any entrepreneur was effectively worshipped. I'm not sure if it's better or worse. The site rarely brings me…
Well yeah, there are hilariously bad and evil comments on any forum with enough people. HN is pretty good for what it is.
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#114Grateful, yes, for rediscovering this great resource for interesting news. So many other sources have succumbed to sensationalism and have become mostly "click bait". Thank you to all the contributors, the admins and developers, and everyone who makes this enjoyable resource popular.
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> "Conflict is essential to human life..." This is great. Can you give a citation?
Pulled from @dang’s profile: > Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
Right you are. I ran across that quote in her collection "The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men". She included the quote but not the paper. I thought it was amazing, so I wanted to read the paper—which was not easy to find. Eventually someone dug me up a copy and... the quote was the only interesting thing in it. But what a quote. I don't know of anything more relevant.
If any of you want to explore Marion Milner, the place to start is "A Life of One's Own"- a work of original genius: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Ones-Own-Marion-Milner/dp/041555.... Everyone says "think for yourself" but she actually did it. Oh and her brother won the Nobel Prize in physics. Quite a family.
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#116Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at HN!
I am a long-time lurker. This is the best place to know and learn about the latest and greatest. I am thankful for all the posts and comments. I echo the overall sentiment here that this is the only place on the internet where I would rather be. My day starts with HN and ends with it.
Thanks to the fantastic team at HN, which keeps everything running smoothly.
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#117I have been on HN since last 10 years.
This community has inspired me to learn and build stuff – just for the heck of it.
I just wish you folks all the happiness and strength in the world.
Happy Thanksgiving ♥
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It's definitely only a great, good place from a certain perspective. People I respect greatly refer to "the orange site" as "toxic", "misanthropic" or "misogynistic" and full of "microdosing" "VC worshipping wankers" who don't read TFA. It's definitely taken a different path than the one it was on c.2010 where any entrepreneur was effectively worshipped. I'm not sure if it's better or worse. The site rarely brings me…
While HN, despite dang’s heroic efforts, isn’t exactly non-toxic, using Twitter to point this out is hilarious.
Twitter as a whole? Sure, no question there.
But in practice I find Twitter entirely reasonable. My feed is arguably much higher quality than HN for my purposes.
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#119It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does anyone else check the comments before following the link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!
HN has really impressed upon me the value of site loading speed - one big reason I often check the comments first is that _they're there instantly_, whereas clicking on the actual link is a bit of a crapshoot! It's surprising how influential that difference is.
Absolutely! I love the minimalist design of HN. Hope they never pull a reddit and update their design to be 'modern'.
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While HN, despite dang’s heroic efforts, isn’t exactly non-toxic, using Twitter to point this out is hilarious.
Twitter as a whole? Sure, no question there. But in practice I find Twitter entirely reasonable. My feed is arguably much higher quality than HN for my purposes.
Meh. You're applying selective judgement when talking about Twitter, saying it's entirely reasonable because you are very good at avoiding the awful parts of it.
Do the same with HN and you will see the good parts of it are entirely reasonable as well.
Taken as a whole, I don't see how Twitter as a whole is reasonable. In my opinion, on average it is probably the most toxic, inane popularity contest of any social media.
That said, this is a Thanks HN post, so I don't really care to make this a whole discussion about the blue site vs the orange site.