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Dang, you do a very nice job of moderating here. Light touch approach, helpful guidance and enforcement when needed. Just wanted to let you know it's apprecia
by randycupertino 6y ago
Dang, you do a very nice job of moderating here. Light touch approach, helpful guidance and enforcement when needed. Just wanted to let you know it's appreciated!
- seehafer 6y agoMr. Gackle is in large part what has kept HN from degrading into just another Internet forum.
- FriendlyNormie 6y ago“Mr. Gackle”? Seriously? Is the nauseating sycophancy really necessary? You’re really trying this hard to compose a totally contrived suck-up comment? Why? Do you think he likes it when people like you act this way? Do you have any self-awareness at all? Do you realize how you come across to him and to everyone else when you act like this?
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoTo be honest, I think that these comments evidence a failure of the HN website UI. Wouldn't it be easier to just create standard pagination links at the top of the comments page, rather than manually forcing a mod to post this "list of pages" comment on each and every article?
- als0 6y agoHmm I wonder if dang's message might already be automated rather than manual?
- mrgordon 6y agoYes similarly I’ve started to notice that other users never notice I’ve replied to their comments since there are no notifications. A bit sad since sometimes quite a bit of effort is put into the replies.
- Benjamin_Dobell 6y agohttps://hnreplies.com/ https://hnreplies.com/
- 0-_-0 6y agoRSS version: https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds https://hnrss.github.io/#reply-feeds
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoOh, this one is great! I was previously running hnreplies through kill-the-newsletter.com!
- mrgordon 6y agoThanks to both of you
- kgermino 6y agoI think dang would agree. 1) there is a more link at the bottom of the page, Dan started making these comments because the UI is too subtle and a lot of people miss the link 2) I believe that he’s said they are working on performance improvements so that all the comments can be shown on a single page to solve the problem completely.
- dang 6y agoOh yes but there are two failures: (1) the UI doesn't display pages clearly; (2) the software is too slow to render entire threads. #2 is the real problem, and I don't want a temporary workaround to become too easy. The real prize is getting the software fast enough to just render entire pages again, which is what it did for most of HN's existence.
- dang 6y agoThank you! and sorry to proceed by detaching your comment, but it's best for this subthread not to be at the top. (I could collapse it, but think of the non-JS users...)