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Thank you to dang and sctb

950 points sama | 6 comments | 22 Nov 18 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.622s | source | bottom

Dan and Scott do an incredible amount of work behind the scenes to make Hacker News what it is. I have never met two more thoughtful community stewards. They usually get more hate than thanks, which they deal with cheerfully. This community means a lot to a lot of people.

So today I wanted to say thanks, on behalf of the HN community.

1. juped ◴[22 Nov 18 21:53 UTC] No.18512808[source]▶
I think they're good mods, but I don't think this thread is appropriate, nor would I want to have put them in the position of deciding whether to delete it bt making it, as the OP did.
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2. obituary_latte ◴[22 Nov 18 22:00 UTC] No.18512839[source]▶
The odds of the mods deleting it seem pretty slim seeing as the author of the post is their boss man.

The thread need not be deleted anyway. Nothing wrong with thanking some of the people that keep the site running smoothly. Especially on a day dedicated to giving thanks.

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3. ◴[22 Nov 18 22:00 UTC] No.18512844[source]▶
4. cbkeller ◴[22 Nov 18 22:09 UTC] No.18512889[source]▶
If we want to be technical, I think there's also an argument to be made that moderation of online forms is a hard problem that "good hackers would find interesting" which would arguably satisfy the guideline that

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

and if there's a broad community sense that moderation is particularly good here, there may be something interesting to be learned from that.

In any event, it's (American) thanksgiving and they're about the best mods I've seen!

5. saganus ◴[22 Nov 18 22:11 UTC] No.18512905[source]▶
The user "sama" (the OP) is Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator.
6. ◴[22 Nov 18 22:11 UTC] No.18512907[source]▶