Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

Does anyone else think that HN engages in far too much navel-gazing? Nothing gets upvotes faster than a HN submission about HN.

It's weird that HN viewers are interested in HN

As moultano suggests, this is likely because most other websites make it completely impossible to navel-gaze. We can't possibly give the HN admins too much praise and credit for their commitment to open and stable availability of legacy data.

It's true that meta is the crack of internet forums, so we, er, crack down on it quite a bit. That's a longstanding view: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Alternate metaphor: evil catnip - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

But yesterday's thread and this one are clearly exceptions—far above the median. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212180 was particularly incredible I think!

I love it when you share some insight about HN or internet communication for which you have relevant searches at the ready to explanations of the concept.

A personal favourite is “the contrarian dynamic”.

Do you have a list of those at the ready or do you just remember them? If you feel like sharing, what’s your process and is there a list of those you’d make public?

I imagine having one would be useful, e.g. for onboarding someone like tomhow, though that doesn’t really happen often.

I just remember them. Or forget them!

The process is simply that moderation is super repetitive, so eventually certain pathways get engraved in one's memory. A lot of the time, though, I can't quite remember one of these patterns and I'm unable to dig up my past comments about it. That's annoying, in that particular way when your brain can feel something's there but is unable to retrieve it.

Well, you're #24 in this article's hall of fame, and the LLM thinks your moderation views stood the test of time. Perhaps it can already retrieve them for you.

There are so many interesting points and patterns that I've just lost track of over the years.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Dang, posting links to searches for your own comments is so meta, no matter the topic, but even more meta when about meta crack. I love how the first hit of meta crack is this, your own message about meta crack.

I'm higher than my supplier!