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600 points codetrotter | 3 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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1. roflyear ◴[07 Apr 23 00:44 UTC] No.35476621[source]▶
This isn't true. I'm a member of a sailing forum and this doesn't go on there. Karma is probably part of it. Hard to interpret and subjective rules are another. No value outside of to YC is another. Etc etc. This isn't a community. It's a news aggregate.
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2. dang ◴[07 Apr 23 01:23 UTC] No.35476891[source]▶
How large is the sailing forum? Size is the biggest factor in my experience.

I don't know what you mean by "no value outside of to YC" but I think—in fact I know—that HN has added massive value to lots of people's lives, and not just by providing interesting reading material. I know this because people tell me how HN changed their life, and I also know that HN changed my life (long before I started as a mod).

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3. roflyear ◴[07 Apr 23 13:38 UTC] No.35481438[source]▶
It's pretty big, but not massive. A fraction of HN.

But I'm members of other communities that always have at least 100-200 people online at the same time. I guess that is still a fraction of HN? But They all work well.