Looks like I made spot #844. I already knew I spent too much time on HN, but that seems excessive, so it boggles my mind how anyone could have the time to be in the top 100.
Yeah, the top commentor behind dang is averaging almost 25 comments a day!
Top Hacker News commenters of 2021
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#92It would really scare me if dang wasn't the first one. But at the same time, I feel immense pain thinking about what he has to deal with on a daily basis. Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 on the shoulders of one admin. I'd like to say how a million flowers should bloom from this shining example, but it seems more lik…
> independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 There is a lot of stealth censorship on HN that occurs behind the scenes. After I wrote a post that was critical of Stripe, all of my new posts are automatically shadow banned. This place won’t survive for much longer, I don’t think. Edit: And before dang posts some dumb response, I will tell you that he said “the algorithm” decided that my posts were “self p…
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#93Does HN have about 10K active users? Then this entire post is more or less clickbait because we are all in here ( I just found myself in the list as well).
More useful is knowing
* What were 2021's most upvoted articles?
* Wat were 20201's most upvoted comments?
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an art to it. Although if a new account got negative karma early on, I would just abandon it. Selective evolution towards an account with comments that hit well enough.
No, it's selective evolution towards comment that appease the majority of the commenters, which is different. It's how you end up with reddit-like echo chambers.
A) that’s within the realm of what I wrote, so it doesn’t inherently disagree
B) that also happens, there are also insightful things people hadnt previously thought of that people just like
C) as others wrote, only a subset of users can really affect consensus. So its more of a representative democracy, active users that have accumulated alot of karma are the ones that have to simply be unoffended. But others can flag and effectively censor anyway.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 I recognize an hyperbole when I see one, but this one is kinda of a big one.
Name one that's apolitical, anonymous, and personally moderated post by post? Some reddit subs might fit the bill, or some car enthusiast forums or something where wide-ranging conversations are banned. But this is a hard, hard thing to mod. I don't think we have anything else like it these days. That's why I'm actually here.
> Name one that's apolitical, anonymous, and personally moderated post by post?
There are literally millions of forums out there.
On any topic.
Even simply statistically speaking, there's a ton like that.
Re: Top Hacker News commenters of 2021
#96It would really scare me if dang wasn't the first one. But at the same time, I feel immense pain thinking about what he has to deal with on a daily basis. Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 on the shoulders of one admin. I'd like to say how a million flowers should bloom from this shining example, but it seems more lik…
> [...] on the shoulders of one admin
Actually, there are multiple admins. See his response to my question here [0].
That's, of course, not to distract from his great work; as I've stated multiple times already, I really think HN is one of the best moderated communities overall.
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#97It would really scare me if dang wasn't the first one. But at the same time, I feel immense pain thinking about what he has to deal with on a daily basis. Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 on the shoulders of one admin. I'd like to say how a million flowers should bloom from this shining example, but it seems more lik…
If you want to help you can point out clear-cut guideline violations in a comment, or mail them to dang directly. Just don’t violate the guidelines yourself in the process.
I also prefer to keep the guideline commentary separate from any other matter so as not to dilute the message.
Re: Top Hacker News commenters of 2021
#98Does HN have about 10K active users? Then this entire post is more or less clickbait because we are all in here ( I just found myself in the list as well). More useful is knowing * What were 2021's most upvoted articles? * Wat were 20201's most upvoted comments?
> There was 150k+ active users of Hacker News in 2021 and below is the list of the 10k most active users.[1]
- [1] https://whaly.io/posts/top-10k-commenters-of-hacker-news-in-...
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By now, there should be enough data to automate dang? On a more serious note: Is he really doing this all by himself? If so, I am sure he could train some junior people to off-load the work.
Proper moderation requires strength of character to moderate evenly people you do and do not agree with. Not something you can impart on others, even less so on juniors.
Being a waiter, working in a casino, being a cab driver, and running a coffee shop... you know, the secret to banning people is that you're always fair and more equitable than everyone else who's screaming, so when you do finally do it, everyone is either happy or scared they'll be next. People are surprisingly easy to manipulate this way. It would be wonderful if more sites activated that part of people's fear-lizard-brain more often; good manners are partly taught and partly enforced.
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