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I didn't even know until now that there are editors on this site. Who are these people and what magical powers do they hold?
by cstejerean 19y ago
I didn't even know until now that there are editors on this site. Who are these people and what magical powers do they hold?
- jgrahamc 19y agoWell, HN is written in Arc which has a REPL and so the editors can do whatever they want!
- drm237 19y agoYou think the editors interact with the system via the REPL? I would assume they just have the edit/delete functionality exposed for every post instead of just their own. Would be interested to know how this is actually implemented.
- tokipin 19y agothe source for HN is available in the Arc distro
- cstejerean 19y agoI believe the source for a subset of HN is available in the Arc distro. I remember PG commenting about having to remove YC specific stuff from there.
- dfranke 19y agoYC's application form is integrated with HN. I assume that's the main thing they removed.
- foonamefoo 19y agoHe was talking about things like the YC summer/winter application forms, not the moderation system.
- pg 19y agoYes, and in fact you can see from that exactly what editors can do. (Look for calls to the function editor.) Editors can basically edit titles, kill stories and ban users.