PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

Mods, thank you all for saving the day every day. Thank you a hundred times. (On behalf of these 99% of lurkers that benefit your work the most but never say anything.) (Flag this.)

Yes! Dang is doing such a great job. We tend to have really awesome discussions here and for the first few months on this site, I didn't even realize it was moderated. Hats off to him.

I want to chime in and agree with this. Thank you dang and sctb. You guys are amazing.

(Is sctb still a moderator? Looks like his last post was 8 or so months ago.)

Alas, Scott left. Normally we'd both have posted more prominently about that, but it happened at an especially difficult time and that simply wasn't possible. (He's fine, I'm fine, and we're fine, in case that suggested otherwise.)

Thank you for everything you do, Dan. Many of us spend our precious time here because of you. It is deeply appreciated.

Honestly, in a sea of internet cesspool, HN consistently shines.

Importantly, I have changed my opinions on certain aspects of technology or politics based on rational civilized discourse that happens here. Disagreement is actually an active and important part of such discussions.

Sad that Scott left, but happy to hear the circumstances are ok now.

Nevertheless, thanks to you dang for the amazing work you do, and to Scott for the work he did do.

Is there now (or will there) be a new person on the team?

Dang does a good job? He does a good job of shutting down discussion that strays from the leftist agenda. Deleting anything that doesn't conform to the SV brand of wokeness while leaving up comments from leftist extremeists.

It has become impossible to talk about anything slightly controversial that detractors don't even try since they'll just get downvoted and flagged into oblivion.

I sort of agree, he's definitely trying to enforce policies to advance an agenda while claiming pretty subjective justifications [1] for any action that he takes to shut down discussions. But to me that agenda looks like it's just about rich capitalist interests - just trying to make this place mostly corporate, capitalist friendly, not satisfy anyone's interests and "intellectual curiosity" as he likes to claim.

[1] Subjective justifications cannot teach anyone anything, as people can't know what exactly is the problem, only that they have to shut up, because moderator doesn't like what they are discussing.

> since they'll just get downvoted and flagged into oblivion.

That's other users, not dang.

This generally occurs after Dang has shut down the discussion for an arbitrarily reason, usually for “being inflammatory” when more “inflammatory” leftist commentary, usually in the same thread, are left untouched.