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No, and hopefully no. Dan Gackle ('dang) runs the place now,
Yes but that fact alone doesn't tell us how much involvement PG has with this place.
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Yes but that fact alone doesn't tell us how much involvement PG has with this place.
Very little, as I understand it, and, from my experience before and after Paul Graham officially relinquished control, from all the evidence.
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I'm not convinced there's an actual problem with downvotes on HN. It mostly seems that way when you take a snapshot of a page, but waiting an hour (if the comment section is active and the topic is not controversial), grey comments have a tendency to become un-grey over time unless they fall into a few categories. Maybe someone doing NLP research and sentiment analysis could put together a more thorough analysis, but…
im okay with those but what i dislike is how some people are so jaded that they spam downvotes on all your comments. basically I'm learning there's no algorithm protection against this so I guess I'm not going to play nice either anymore. It's time to dust off all the aged HN accounts I've accumulated over the past few years and it's open season now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm openly declaring my intent to abuse the downvote featu…
I can't believe I've been a HN user for 14 years. Things come and go but HN was one of the very very few web sites that I visited pretty much every day for this whole time. Except for rare hiking trip days. It's also amazing how the spirit and the quality stay more or less the same here. I guess not all Eternal September effects are alike.
I lurked for a long time, but I find myself here more as Reddit has become less useful over the last decade.
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Very little, as I understand it, and, from my experience before and after Paul Graham officially relinquished control, from all the evidence.
Do you think all the evidence is available to us?