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subsubzero ◴[] No.35461974[source]
Congrats Dang, you have done a wonderful job so far and moderate one of the most fantastic online communities out there. I am sure most of the job feels somewhat thankless but I want to let you know I(and many many other users on this site) appreciate your hard work and dedication.
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1. ghayes ◴[] No.35462601[source]
Maybe a good time to link to the New Yorker article on Dan’s work at Hacker News: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Thanks again Dan for being so patient and building one of the best online communities ever to exist.

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2. nomilk ◴[] No.35462968[source]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200315173643/https://www.newyo...
3. walleeee ◴[] No.35467413[source]
From the article:

> “From our perspective, the big surprise is how little control we actually have. We have to play our cards very carefully and very wisely, or even that control will sort of evaporate,” Gackle said. “There’s often a strong wish to solve these contentious problems by changing the software, and, to the extent that we’ve tried things like that, we haven’t found it to work. What does seem to work better is personal interaction, over and over and over again, with individual users. That, case by case by case, seems to move the needle. But it’s very slow.”

> “If we’re trying to change something deep, the ingredient is time,” Bell said. “Patience allows us to be ambitious—to imagine people being more kind to each other, for example. It sounds kind of crazy.”

It might sound crazy but it seems to work. Thanks much Dan and Scott for all the time and effort.