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There is only one post on the blog and it is front page of hacker news? That is some achievement! Are there more writings from this author?

• dang 6y ago
  DoreenMichele is a well-known HN user and many of her posts have appeared here. She often makes a new domain per blog topic, but I presume readers recognize her username. The upvotes seem organic, as far as I can tell. There's no issue. You've posted three dismissive comments to this thread. Could you please stop? If you don't like this reading material, there are 29 other articles on the front page, and don't miss the 'past' link at the top that points to all the most popular threads from past days. It would be good to review the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • GEBBL 6y ago
    I did not recognise the username, but will take that into consideration for future. For me, it looked like a request for money and I felt it was not right, but I see I am mistaken and would like to apologise to Michele.
    • deleted 6y ago
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    • dang 6y ago
      That's really nice of you, and I'm sure not only she but everyone reading this will feel a bit better for it.
      • lonelappde 6y ago
        Are all your "nots" in the right places?
        • dang 6y ago
          They were not. Fixed; thanks!
  • cossray 6y ago
    Dang, this is irrelevant to the topic but I needed to ask it. Are you an individual or several 'users/employees/maintainers' using the same username? Your omnipresent has always been intriguing to me
    • fastball 6y ago
      It is one guy. He is full-time employed by YC to maintain HN. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac... https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
    • wfleming 6y ago
      I believe Dang is Daniel. There was an interesting New Yorker article about HN's moderation a while back you might enjoy: http://archive.is/QiDtu http://archive.is/QiDtu.
    • EvanAnderson 6y ago
      I was amused to learn that he's "Dan G" and not "dang!", too. I still think of him as "dang!", though. I also really appreciate the thankless job he does here. Thanks, Dan! (Does that mean it's not thankless now... Should I edit this comment? Arrghh!)
      • dang 6y ago
        It's both: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296 (The inimitable DonHopkins provided the perfect gloss)
    • DoreenMichele 6y ago
      Like Doreen Traylor, Dan Gackle is a figment of your imagination. But he's very polite and well behaved, so he's a figment I enjoy being acquainted with via internet.
    • dang 6y ago
• carapace 6y ago
  It's almost certainly "echoing" off of a comment in the "If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs" thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206784 I saw the "No One Goes There Anymore" post last night while trawling through the "new posts" page, read it, realized it was from DoreenMichele, and, having read and resonated with the aforementioned comment, upvoted it just to make DM feel better. YMMV