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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 1 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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ChrisRR ◴[06 Apr 23 08:10 UTC] No.35465648[source]▶
How is it determined what posts reach the first page?

I visit hacker news so that I can avoid current affairs news, but all too often non "hacker" stories appear on the feed and it feels like they shouldn't have made it out of New

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1. dang ◴[06 Apr 23 08:19 UTC] No.35465708[source]▶
It's just what's described in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: upvotes, time, software actions, and moderator actions.

There's no easy way to distinguish between "hacker" and "non hacker" stories because different people evaluate these expressions completely differently.