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Welcome 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.
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I dunno if you got the memo, but we're in 3rd of April now, no more jokes allowed, especially not traumatic ones like those.
Reminder for April Fools Day next Year: Get Dang to do a post saying HN is moving to a discord server.
Welcome 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.
Many 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…
Please rewrite HN as an SPA using the most bleeding edge alpha JavaScript frameworks you can find.
Many 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…
Hi, I'm just some young guy but i wanted to thank you for contributing to what makes this site great. It feels to me like this is one of the last bastions of the true news aggregator/comment media of old and i really appreciate everyone who dedicates time to maintaining it. Thanks <3
Congratulations Tom! Tom (and Fenn) had rockstar status back when I was involved in university CS+Entrepreneurship clubs in Melbourne around 2009/2010 (mostly led by fine students at UniMelb, but I was helping spread the word at Monash) because they were the first(maybe one of the first?) Aussies to be accepted by YC. They always generously gave their time and advice at these student events, even dropped by the Silic…
We were the first startup to be Australian-based then move to the U.S. for YC.
Omnisio was an all-Australian team from the year before us but they were already residing in the U.S.
The first ever Australian-originated co-founder of a YC-backed company was Jamie Cameron. He co-founded Virtualmin, a commercially-supported fork of Webmin for virtual hosting, which Jamie first released in 1997. It looks like Virtualmin is still active today, which is awesome.
It just so happens that Jamie and Fenn used to sit next to each other in the software development team at Pacific Internet in Melbourne, where we all worked in the early 00s. Jamie's brother, Michael Cameron, was a co-founder of Rome2Rio, which was based at Inspire9 along with us from about 2011-12, and became one of the most successful consumer travel startups out of Australia.
Welcome 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.
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I understand, and lament, that the world is so polarised these days. There's a limit to what we in this little corner of the web can do to correct such powerful global macro trends, but we'll continue to try our best. If you see things that are unfairly flagged, you can email us and we'll look at them. As long as comments/submissions are within the guidelines, we'll restore them. We want HN to be a place where people…
How effective are vouches in this regard? I'll do that reasonably frequently on both posts and comments, though I'm not sure how effective that is. One sec, let's look at the endpoint ... First page (30 entries) for each shows, at this writing: - 13 dead of 30 vouched, submissions. - 26 dead of 30 vouched, comments. The endpoints for the uninitiated: Posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/vouched?id=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE C…
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> 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.
Or maybe you misunderstand (on purpose?). I'm saying you attribute those downvotes incorrectly. It's maybe natural to do so as an instinct -- "those people are against me!" -- but on HN it's expected to be a bit more introspective. It's incorrect to say that "people downvote because I'm right" or "people downvote because they have nothing to say".
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> People will frequently say that downvoting is not for disagreeing Those people are wrong.
Downvoting pushes peoples comments down and greys them out, effectively silencing them. It creates echo chambers. I reserve my downvotes for when arguments are made in bad faith, rely on logical fallacies, or present know-false information as an argument. If someone presents an argument on something I disagree with, but it's made in good faith and is well-structured, it deserves an upvote, even if I still disagree af…
I don't see how that's a problem. People that agree with them can upvote them and ungrey them out and push them back up.