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The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

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Re: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

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Post by zimablue »

rectang wrote: post #117
mdpm wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed on not creating silos. Adding User 'flair' is perhaps a viable option, where users can simply tag other users with a short description. That enables both properties - avoiding discourse you find troubling, and allowing users to highlight those that they find enlightening. Freedom of speech works well when paired with freedom to listen. Removing content (even if only from a user's view) only deepens the filter…

> Agreed on not creating silos. There's one big silo, with the people who have stayed within it, and the people who have left outside it. There aren't very many women here, which I assume is because of how the HN conversations about issues important to women tend to play out. This isn't an HN-specific problem, it's industry-wide. But I didn't go into software until my 30s, so the gender skew of the industry feels ali…

Citation needed

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Post by TeMPOraL »

saagarjha wrote: post #197
mcguire wrote: post #73

" N-gate, a satirical Web site with the slogan “We can’t both be right” (a NAND gate is a kind of logic gate that only outputs “false” if all of its inputs read “true”), offers a weekly summary of Hacker News discussions, dubbed “webshit weekly.” The N-gate entry about a Hacker News discussion of a Times article on the crashes of two Boeing 737 airliners, in Indonesia and Ethiopia, is typical. “Discussing a pair of c…

> Oh, this post? Typical newyorker puff piece, too long to read and unrelated to technology. Someone should flag it. Guess what N-gate talks about…

Both you two and the article itself have broken the Prime Directive.

Re: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

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Post by joshxyz »

mayank wrote: post #146
echelon wrote: post #32

Thanks dang! You've helped keep HN readable, corrected countless title and link errors, and prevented heated discussions from devolving into fights. I also am super thankful for your help getting my "Show HN" post to the front page. We all appreciate you.

TIL it's "Dan G" and not the Chinese surname "Dang" that I'd always assumed.

Also surprised to learned that back then, but it's too late I already got used in reading it as "dang"

Re: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

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Post by westwing »

Razengan wrote: post #82

When I first discovered HN, it was like a breath of fresh air compared to Reddit etc. I have since lost faith. HN likes to masquerade as some sort of upscale establishment, high and above the petty squabbles of Eslewhere, but in the end this place too devolves into a predictable echo chamber just like the rest of them, when it comes to any topic on which people have varied opinions. This is not a place for dissenting…

Consider that HN is a tool to measure how dissenting your views actually are with the crowd that you are interacting with.

This is useful in a time where taking some stance can cost you your job or career, even years down the line.

However, it's unfortunate that instead of showing up- and downvotes, negative-scored comments turn grey. There is no distinction between a universally disliked comment and a controversial comment.

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Post by achow »

mayank wrote: post #146
echelon wrote: post #32

Thanks dang! You've helped keep HN readable, corrected countless title and link errors, and prevented heated discussions from devolving into fights. I also am super thankful for your help getting my "Show HN" post to the front page. We all appreciate you.

TIL it's "Dan G" and not the Chinese surname "Dang" that I'd always assumed.

Mar 2014, Paul Graham

I’m delighted to announce that Daniel Gackle (pronounced Gackley), who has already been doing most of the moderation for the last 18 months, is going to join YC full-time to be in charge of the HN community. Many HN users know Daniel as gruseom, though now he’s going to switch to the slightly more legit sounding dang.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...

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Post by ignoramous »

It is also lonely work to be commenting on Hacker News on pages that do not make the front page.

Anyhow, for dang and stcb (founder market fit!), I believe, with abuse in online communities on the rise, is an opportunity to dust up that YC application (stamp of approval!) and apply with a startup idea that can be repeatably (software eating the world!) sold to other companies grappling with this problem (product market fit!) unless they agree to a merger (acquihire by Stripe incoming!). Mark my words, this is going to happen someday.

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