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Does PG actually modertate HN? I thought he had mods like dang to take care of it for him. I'd be more interested to hear what dang thinks of HN than what PG
by pmoriarty 6y ago
Does PG actually modertate HN?
I thought he had mods like dang to take care of it for him.
I'd be more interested to hear what dang thinks of HN than what PG thinks.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoHe did early on; not anymore.
- rapnie 6y agoYou could read "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News". It is a great article. 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... Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052
- slavik81 6y agoIt's rather silly, but until I read this article, I'd always assumed dang was Asian.
- StavrosK 6y agoThe Chinese Da Ng?
- frosted-flakes 6y agoIsn't Ng a Vietnamese name?
- StavrosK 6y agoI thought so too, but Wikipedia said Chinese, so I went with it.
- slavik81 6y agoI'd picked up from context that it was his real name, and had assumed it was his surname. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_(surname) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_(surname)
- gus_massa 6y agoHe was the moderator until March 2014. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...