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Thank you to dang and sctb

950 points sama | 1 comments | 22 Nov 18 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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.

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comesee[dead post] ◴[22 Nov 18 21:18 UTC] No.18512638[source]▶
dang called me a troll after I simply asked him exactly what it was about my comment that warranted it being removed. So, no thanks actually.
wild_preference ◴[22 Nov 18 21:30 UTC] No.18512704[source]▶
Looking at your screenshot you post elsewhere (https://ibb.co/hoSMHK), I have to agree with them insofar as you need to know when to quit.

Running a forum is hard work and everyone wants to devolve every mod decision into rules lawyering, like "well, then why wasn't this specific thing in the rules?"

No, there can't be a rule for literally everything, so you're just going to have to be an adult and take it on the chin when the mods make a decision and double down on it. I completely empathize with dang's final post, that your "legalistic gambit" is a waste of everyone's time, and often the platform people like to spring off some sort of "omg the mod tyranny" campaign.

That happened over 70 days ago. Maybe it's time to let it go and learn to live with the fact that your tiny comment was flagged. Looking at your post history, you've lived through much worse, respectfully.

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tinkerteller ◴[23 Nov 18 07:29 UTC] No.18514951[source]▶
While I don’t agree with @comesee, I don’t see his comments are offensive/vulgar language. Even the parent comment states very short and simple fact:

> dang called me a troll after I simply asked him exactly what it was about my comment that warranted it being removed.

Why do you think this tiny little comment worthy of immediate massive downvotes so that no one even can upvote it any more?

Is it your expectation that people commenting here must submit themselves to popular opinion? Is diverging from group think or disagreeing with mods punishable by immediate shadow banning?

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yesenadam ◴[23 Nov 18 08:06 UTC] No.18515067[source]▶
1. Because the comment didn't stop there. Why leave off the bit on the end? Because it would ruin your case? 2. Because, with what I've learnt of dang, the comment you quoted is certain to be not the whole story, to the point of being false. I'd wager a lot of money on that.
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tinkerteller[dead post] ◴[23 Nov 18 12:08 UTC] No.18515944[source]▶
Hugh? “So, no thanks actually.” part was so important for you? I see how people like you and others have taken up to be the judge and jury and hang anyone who diverges from the echo chamber. It’s quite a shame that people who would like them to identify themselves as hackers have turned in to moral police and suppress any minority opinions however respectfully presented. Hope is that a new website would comes along as replacement someday that protects freedoms of opinion, expression and speech from this self-righteous crowd.

Fun fact: there are zero suppressions for any comments praising the mods in this thread. Now go read the definition of “echo chamber”.

DonHopkins ◴[23 Nov 18 18:02 UTC] No.18517953[source]▶
Yeah, the whole country is an echo chamber right now. Everybody saying "Thanks for this", "Thanks for that", "Thank you", "Thank you too", "Why, you're welcome", "Here, have something to eat", "Pass the turkey please", "Here, have some more turkey!", "This is excellent turkey, thank you!", "You're welcome!"
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1. PavlovsCat ◴[05 Dec 18 01:28 UTC] No.18605047{3}[source]▶
"please don't post shallow dismissals"

Another highly selectively enforced rule.