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mw6621 ◴[] No.23806714[source]
I agree with his ultimate conclusion -- don't start a forum.

It is no fun being an internet referee.

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pmoriarty ◴[] No.23807014[source]
Does PG actually modertate HN?

I thought he had mods like dang to take care of it for him.

I'd be more interested to hear what dang thinks of HN than what PG thinks.

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rapnie ◴[] No.23807089[source]
You could read "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News". It is a great article.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052

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slavik81 ◴[] No.23807381[source]
It's rather silly, but until I read this article, I'd always assumed dang was Asian.
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1. StavrosK ◴[] No.23807502[source]
The Chinese Da Ng?
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2. frosted-flakes ◴[] No.23807868[source]
Isn't Ng a Vietnamese name?
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3. StavrosK ◴[] No.23807896[source]
I thought so too, but Wikipedia said Chinese, so I went with it.
4. slavik81 ◴[] No.23807968[source]
I'd picked up from context that it was his real name, and had assumed it was his surname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_(surname)