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600 points codetrotter | 4 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.767s | source
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subsubzero ◴[05 Apr 23 23:32 UTC] 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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codeddesign ◴[06 Apr 23 01:08 UTC] No.35462773[source]▶
If by “finest” you mean a Reddit mob mentality for tech, then yes I completely agree with this statement.
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dang ◴[06 Apr 23 01:54 UTC] No.35463131[source]▶
What do you think we could do differently? Serious question.

I don't like the mob thing either but it's how large group dynamics on the internet work (by default). We try to mitigate it where we can but there's not a lot of knowledge about how to do that.

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yCombLinks ◴[06 Apr 23 02:06 UTC] No.35463213[source]▶
Downweight posts and comments based on the frequency and positive sentiment. IE things that are posted often and with high positive comments should bubble to the top less often.
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dang ◴[06 Apr 23 02:12 UTC] No.35463250[source]▶
Other people want us to downweight negative sentiment. I wonder what happens if you downweight all the sentiments.
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mochomocha ◴[06 Apr 23 03:10 UTC] No.35463663[source]▶
Do you have a simple AB testing system in place to test hypotheses like this? If you're the only sherif in town running experiments, it doesn't take much work to build a simple one, probably around ~100 LOC ("do things that don't scale").
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1. dang ◴[06 Apr 23 03:11 UTC] No.35463676[source]▶
We don't. I know it sounds simple but I'm too tired.

Edit: to expand a bit lest that seem snarky - what I mean is that maintaining the current system takes so much energy that there's precious little capacity left over for creative exploration. This is a problem.

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2. mochomocha ◴[06 Apr 23 04:20 UTC] No.35464083[source]▶
I understand. In the typical corporate world this is solved with "hire interns to work on all the cool things we don't have bandwidth to explore, while being simultaneously jealous of them". Or I'm sure a lot of people such as myself would happily volunteer to help out.
3. saagarjha ◴[06 Apr 23 06:11 UTC] No.35464772[source]▶
Have you looked into expanding the team? (I’m guessing the answer is yes: if so, how has it gone?)
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4. dang ◴[06 Apr 23 06:26 UTC] No.35464877[source]▶
Yes but it's complicated. Mostly by me.