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How comes your karma points halved?
Karma is stored in a 16 bit integer. It overflowed.
That's cool
Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
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Flagging is used by people who have no rebuttal but are mad. That's why I have only flagged one or two posts, ever, but not because I was mad, but because the comment was just plain beyond the pale. And my posts against portaying violent rape in film got flagged. Make it make sense, because I understand the failure of this system because systems are my trade-in-craft.
> Flagging is used by people who have no rebuttal but are mad This is cope, just like "I'm being downvoted for speaking the truth!". Nobody thinks "wow, they said a true statement, I should downvote them". I suggest you try to steelman the idea of flagging and see that maybe there could be other things at play.
> Nobody thinks "wow, they said a true statement, I should downvote them".
Precisely. That's the biggest problem with closed-minded fools.
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#423Observation: How lucky are we that our contributions here warrant two fine moderators? I just read Tom's brief story on how he arrived here and what it means and felt... I don't really have a quick word for it. I know I am better for having spent time here. Oh, I got it! A tiny bit spoiled, but in the best of ways. Yeah, that is what I felt. How lucky we are indeed. :)
Do you have showdead enabled to see how many good comments are being unfairly censored? Otherwise this is just survivorship bias talking.
Not many.
Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
#424Observation: How lucky are we that our contributions here warrant two fine moderators? I just read Tom's brief story on how he arrived here and what it means and felt... I don't really have a quick word for it. I know I am better for having spent time here. Oh, I got it! A tiny bit spoiled, but in the best of ways. Yeah, that is what I felt. How lucky we are indeed. :)
Do you have showdead enabled to see how many good comments are being unfairly censored? Otherwise this is just survivorship bias talking.
If you see a good comment in the [dead] state, you don't have to complain about it being "unfairly censored" - you can intervene to fix it by vouching for it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Re: Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
#425> He has been doing HN moderation work for years already and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you'll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do. I wonder if there are any other secret moderators.
If you reach 160'000 karma you can see the secret mods
At 1 million you become a secret mod. Or so I hear.
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#426Many thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. It’s been a privilege to help support this community and to work alongside dang, who has been a great friend and mentor for many years. It’s a great responsibility, to keep HN a healthy and thriving community, and I’m continually amazed to see all the ways dang puts thought and energy into it. One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected…
Thank you for doing what you do! I'm sure it isn't easy keeping this place healthy and thriving, but me and so many others really appreciate the blood, sweat and probably a few literal tears it takes :)
Not to forget — of course — the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that must've went into cushioning the brain from the occasional nervekiller comment, as well as the endo-/perilymph for the overall "mental balance".
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#427Congrats Tom! And thanks Dan! (Yes, I've been around long enough to know the "G" is for your last name! :)
I feel like it's a little unfair when it's coming from "eddyg".
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#428Many thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. It’s been a privilege to help support this community and to work alongside dang, who has been a great friend and mentor for many years. It’s a great responsibility, to keep HN a healthy and thriving community, and I’m continually amazed to see all the ways dang puts thought and energy into it. One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected…
Tom, what a small world. Seems just like yesterday we were at Inspire 9 together!
Hey Sam, we first met well before that :)
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I really don't think that HN lets dissenting opinions thrive (well, not anything that is truly controversial but not clearly hateful). That may feel cozy but it's not a reflection of anything pure or good, imo.
HN does not welcome dissenting opinions in certain areas of tech where the individual freedoms of techies come into conflict with status quo social harms to non-techies; so, for example, you won’t see many HN articles about the ethical dilemmas of working at Palantir, how our industry’s libertarian foundations obstruct labor organizing today, what advantages the ‘bros’ receive in return for their misogyny, and so on.…
You don't see those articles because they get flagged instantly by users. You'll see plenty of comments on it though.
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#430Welcome Tom and thank you for helping out this wonderful community.
Just out of curiosity, are you and dang payed for caring for this forum? It seems to me it requires a lot of time and dedication.