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Tell HN: Thank You Dang
Since it’s Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought it would be nice to say a big thank you to dang for his tireless work moderating HN.
Thank you dang. You keep this community vibrant and interesting, yet civil.
- jdkee 6y agoThis belongs here as well. Thank you to a dang despite my occasionally idiotic, off-topic slashdot-esqe comments that do not necessarily contribute to the font of knowledge that is this site. 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...
- lawik 6y agoThank you dang!
- gkoberger 6y agoFor anyone looking for a Thanksgiving-evening behind the scenes deep dive, here's some lite reading: 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... Thank you dang! HN is one of the few places on the internet that feels the same as it did 10 years ago.
- tkgally 6y agoThat New Yorker article is what led me to start reading HN. I don't work in IT and am not a hacker by any means, but the quality of the discussions has made it one of my favorite places on the Internet. My deepest thanks to dang and to all of the contributors.
- purplecats 6y agowhat are your other favorite places?
- gkoberger 6y agoPrivate group chats, unfortunately. It’s hard to have a public one stay high quality.
- purplecats 6y agoyeah that makes sense. any tips on how to go about find them?
- erikbye 6y agoTry paid membership forums. People tend to behave better, and have an interest in keeping the community in order, when they spend money.
- purplecats 6y agowhat kind? im sure you're not talking about onlyfans, but are you referring to the comments sections of paid magazine subscriptions?
- tkgally 6y ago> what are your other favorite places? Various newspaper and magazine sites, and the Internet Archive. No other discussion or conversation sites.
- lostgame 6y ago"He renamed the site Hacker News, and expanded its focus to include “anything that good hackers would find interesting . . . anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity." Well, that about describes it :3
- jds375 6y agoThank you, Dang! The Hacker News community is my favorite thing on the internet - and a good chunk of its success is due to your hard work!
- AkshayGenius 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- Apotheos 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- ackbar03 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- faheywf 6y agoThank you, dang!
- tmsh 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- psadri 6y agoThank you Dang!
- rawland 6y agoThank you, dang! :)
- bdibs 6y agoThank you, dang! Keep up the great work.
- rbancroft 6y agoThank you Dan! I hope all is well.
- an_d_rew 6y agoOh, my, yes... Thank you Dang!
- jgorauskas 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- anoffvu 6y agoBeautiful community, thanks Dang!
- ddingus 6y agoThanks Dang! I have learned a lot here, met some interesting people, and am consistently surprised by the diversity and depth of other people's take on things. Lots of good "voice of experience" to be had as well. High value. Appreciated.
- client4 6y agoThank you, dang!
- yelnatz 6y agoThank you Dang!
- rdiddly 6y agoHey don't forget sctb!
- notRobot 6y agosctb stopped working on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055115
- autocorr 6y agoThank you, dang and sctb!
- awak3ning 6y agoIn an insane world, Hacker News is one corner of the internet that I find to be "normal" and "sane". God Bless you Dang!
- E-Reverance 6y agoWhy aren’t there more of these communities, and if there is I’d like to know.
- system2 6y agoAll other communities are money driven ad bloated and later sponsored with bunch of crap products. And motivation is to promote stuff nonstop and moderation allows it. HN doesn't do any of those.
- tester34 6y ago>All other communities are money driven Not really, there are decent programming communities, but the ones I know aren't using english.
- Magodo 6y agoThere are no communities like this because of Eternal September like phenomena. If HN acquires a million readers tomorrow, it'll be unrecognizable very soon. Nicheness on its own creates valuable communities. Another contributing factor is the 'appalling' UI. I love it, everyone else on HN loves it but an outsider is immediately repelled
- ehnto 6y agoI would be interested to know how many active users HN has, maybe it's because I'm in the bubble but I certainly feel like most people I meet who are "online" already know about it. I have certainly noticed "ebbs" of an Eternal September vibe here too, but they quickly dispel and the types of comments that come from it get downvoted anyway, so it's not as noticeable. Regardless, I am so grateful to have a place of meaningful discussion, and of so many different topics.
- bdcravens 6y agoYes, thank you dang - no discussion site does a better job of keeping the conversation open, relevant, and relatively troll free as HN does.
- ww520 6y agoIndeed, thanks for keeping the community vibrant. Thank you, Dang.
- Phenomenit 6y agoThanks for all your hard work Dang.
- SoylentOrange 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- santamex 6y agoThank you dang!
- caenn 6y agoThank you dang!
- frobisher 6y agoThank you Dang, I never cease to be amazed by the quality of people and content on HN. May it live long and prosper!
- chubot 6y agoYup, my account is over 11 years old and still going strong! Previous forums I used were: 1. the Joel on Software forum, which was great, with a similar clean design, but didn't last as long (Joel got tired of moderating it, probably) https://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/ https://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/ (now has an outdated cert :-( ) 2. Usenet. Epic thread that gives you a picture of what happened to Usenet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24772142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24772142 (a flame war between drummers went on for 20 years, and one of them is even flamed 8 years after his death!!!) Random sample of how bad it could be: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.percussion/c/-EhOkArR6BM/m/9zRv-MEZHCwJ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.makers.percussion/c/-E...
- jjav 6y ago> Usenet. But that's like saying "email". USENET isn't a forum, it is a standard decentralized distribution mechanism owned by nobody (like email). Some newsgroups were a disaster even back in '90 and many were awesome back then. Most decayed but even today there are a few corners of USENET which thrive (I still read a few newsgroups every week with trn).
- chubot 6y agoWell, I'd say it's sort of like "Reddit". Despite being a bunch of different forums, Reddit has a certain feel. Design choices in the software influence people's behavior, as well as influencing which people join and participate to begin with. I imagine Facebook groups are largely different than subreddits for the same reason. I was a pretty early Reddit user, I think 2007 or so. And it definitely got worse, so by ~2012 I had almost entirely stopped using it. But since ~2016, there are a couple communities I like, so I'm back on there. There could be gems on Usenet for sure ... but I checked the forums I used to frequent and you know what happened :)
- jjav 6y agoBut reddit is a proprietary platform, not a protocol. What I was getting at is that NNTP and SMTP (and the infrastructure surrounding the protocols) is all standard and non-proprietary, nobody owns them and anyone can run them so there can be as many communities as may be interested.
- fakedang 6y agoThank you guys for all your well wishes. It's been a privilege serving this community. (psst, thanks realdang)
- jonbaer 6y agoThank you Dang!
- jolux 6y agoThanks, Dan.
- californical 6y agoThank you Dan and Scott! I’ve learned a lot and definitely advanced my career and personal life thanks to the stories and the comments on hn. I’m so thankful for all you do to keep it this way!
- gkoberger 6y agoNothing against Scott, but he left! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930336
- audhitya 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- villgax 6y agoThanks Dang for your work!
- nultxt 6y agoThanks dang :)
- ridgeguy 6y agoThanks very much, Dang.
- no_wizard 6y agoThank you dang!!
- koluna 6y agoThank you Dang!
- jariel 6y agoYes.
- fayten 6y agoThank you, Dang! This is one of the only forums I decided to stop lurking. You have helped foster a wonderful community here.
- orliesaurus 6y agoThank you so much dang
- bakztfuture 6y agoThank you Dang
- warent 6y ago@dang has been an inspiration to me in how to moderate and build communities, and im sure im not alone. his work may be more impactful than he realizes! Thanks Dan!
- mbdesign 6y agoThank you Dang!
- IThoughtYouGNU 6y agoDangsgiving
- ve55 6y agoI think a lot of people don't appreciate the fact of how terrible HN would be if the moderators decidedly to complete leave for a set amount of time (and I love HN as it is, just there is a lot of bad content that gets (auto)removed). They're good at being visible only when they need to be, and so it's nice that many users recognize the great and constant work they do.
- Baeocystin 6y agoAdd my thank You dang to the list! Your work is genuinely appreciated.
- holler 6y agothank you & Happy Thanksgiving dang & everyone else :D
- echelon 6y agoDang helped promote my "Show HN" side project to the front page [1], and that in turn got it worldwide press coverage [2,3,4,5]. But beyond that, I'm super appreciative for keeping the community consistently amazing throughout the years. I've seen heated discussions here. Dang always offers constructive guidance when discourse devolves or gets off topic. It's never preachy, and it usually leads to amicable results when I see it. In years past I commented in frustration that HN was at risk of becoming like Reddit. Dang said not to do this and pointed out a community rule discouraging it. Looking back, I was completely wrong in that judgment. HN is one of the few places that really hasn't changed. There are brilliant people from all walks of life and at various intersections of our industry, all coming together to ask questions and share our perspective. There isn't anything else like it. HN isn't without faults, but it's the best community on the Internet as far as I'm aware. Frequently informative, always entertaining. I learn more every day because of HN. Dang, https://imgur.com/a/w7SRSzF https://imgur.com/a/w7SRSzF (warning: audio) Thank you. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968134 [2] https://gigazine.net/news/20200728-vocodes/ https://gigazine.net/news/20200728-vocodes/ [3] https://hightech.fm/2020/07/28/ai-celebrity-voice https://hightech.fm/2020/07/28/ai-celebrity-voice [4] https://hypebeast.kr/2020/7/vocodes-free-launching-text-to-speach-service-bill-gates-barack-obama https://hypebeast.kr/2020/7/vocodes-free-launching-text-to-s... [5] https://www.larazon.es/tecnologia/20200803/zdj5mf47zfc6rmci5aguhewxcu.html https://www.larazon.es/tecnologia/20200803/zdj5mf47zfc6rmci5...
- vinitagr 6y agoNice Deep Fake
- echelon 6y agoI'm not sure why you got downvoted, because that's actually something in my post. Thanks for the compliment, and sorry for your downvotes. Take this thank you instead. :(
- _august 6y agoOfftopic, but wow this project is amazing. I just made Snape say "I love sprinkles on my donuts" and it made my day.
- thejustinthomas 6y agoBig Thank You Dang!
- rapnie 6y agoThanks much @dang, for all the work you do for HN. You are a true inspiration for me to hone my own community-building and moderation skills.
- huxflux 6y agoThanks bud!
- psavides 6y agoThank you Dang.
- underseacables 6y agoI sincerely disagree, but wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.
- fermienrico 6y agoDang, thanks. This year has been tougher than others, but you've done god's work.
- cvaidya1986 6y agoThank you dang and hacker news for a great community!
- ontouchstart 6y agoThank you Dang!
- monkeycantype 6y agoI don't panic often, but I thought this must have been a send-off tribute, and I panicked.
- Markoff 6y agoRIP Dang
- gts_77 6y agoThank you dang! :D
- caghan 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- ontouchstart 6y agoI am out of almost all social networks. HN is the only one that I still visit for intellectual inspiration. Thank you Dang!
- nojvek 6y agoHN is my Facebook. I don’t miss Facebook. I don’t miss Twitter. The only two social networks I have is HN and Whatsapp (for family groups). I hope dang has Ycombinator equity because he deffo deserves a part of the success.
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- mangamadaiyan 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoA thanks to dang's family as well - there's always someone sustaining us.
- qot 6y agoThank you Dang, your levelheaded moderation makes this place great.
- n42 6y agothank you dang :)
- princesse 6y agoThanks for the hard work Dang!
- abinaya_rl 6y agoOh, I've interacted with dang a few times. I appreciate your manner in which how you handle the requests. Thank you so much for your hard work <3
- nobeh 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- sidcool 6y agoWe should feel gratitude for what we have. And then chase the ambitious. Easier said than done, but a useful philosophy.
- marsantwo 6y agoHacker news keeps me up-to-date on the latest buzz, the most interesting and unusual corners of the interwebs. The value derived from the comments is usually greater than the original article itself. Thank you Dang.
- avirajkhare00 6y agoThank you for your great work dang
- iseanstevens 6y agoThank you, Dang for helping keep one of the few non-secret communities on the web keep feeling like a community.
- omarforgotpwd 6y agoThank you dang
- dshacker 6y agoThank you! <3
- dshacker 6y agoThank you dang <3
- scottm01 6y agoThank you, dang!
- iayer 6y agoThank you, dang!
- jdoss 6y agoThanks for all that you do Dang! I really appreciate you!
- febin 6y agoThank you Dang
- tropdrop 6y agoThank you, Dang! It's hard to believe that the quality of HN rests on the shoulders of just one man – a Herculean feat!
- rntksi 6y agoThank you dang. I really appreciate the moderation of HN, and looking back at everything, makes me appreciate it even more.
- pertymcpert 6y agoI've received a warning from dang a few times on here. Thanks dang for the work you put in to keep this place great.
- zamalek 6y agoDang has always been a moderating voice. He/she doesn't just take action, but gives irrefutable reason. On the subject of being a better human, dang has been an influential teacher.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoThanks Dang! HN is one of my favorite online communities, in large part thanks to your hard work.
- samdung 6y agoDang has taught us that ONE person can make a difference. Be like Dang!
- CortexM4 6y agoThanks a lot Dang and Thanks to the entire HN community! This community is really my goto place in the morning when I wake up, in my lunch time and once before I doze off. What I most like about this group is that I can relate to a lot of the members who have similar experiences, stories and interests. This is the first online community that I feel I really belong. Thanks HN for "making everyday a little bit better!" :-)
- matthewbadeau 6y agoThank you, dang!
- kranner 6y agoThank you, dang :)
- asadlionpk 6y agoHN has been my “home ground” when launching new projects/products. It has helped me and my company tremendously. Dang’s mod work has been amazing. I have always gotten reasonable and complete response from them here and on email. I have high respect for them. I would love to know more about their moderation workflow.
- FreshFries 6y agoThank you, Dang
- enobrev 6y agoI've had a couple links I've submitted that didn't get much attention, followed by an email from dang that it was a legit post that deserved attention and an opportunity to repost the next day. Every time I've replied with gratitude and compliments, and he was gracious, helpful, and humble. Those interactions and attention to moderation keep me here. Moderating this sort of thing is no light task and I have a huge amount of respect for those who keep it sane, fun, cordial, and interesting Thanks dang!
- anilkilic 6y agoSo Dang was the reason for my posts to not show up. Great, thanks a lot mate!
- anticensor 6y agoThanks to Paul, Dan and Scott for keeping the community calm and well.
- bwb 6y agoThank you Dang, for helping me with a show HN and testing an idea :)
- wpalahnuk 6y agoThanks Dang!
- malikNF 6y agoI was a lurker on HN for years before I made my first account here, and dang was a name that kept popping up all over HN. I thought you were an addicted HN user at first, but after a while I got curious and read your post history, and that's when I figured out who you were. I genuinely have a hard time believing you are one person. HN being one of the most important tools that contributed to my growth as a developer and a business owner, dang I feel I personally owe you so much for contributing so much to HN. Thank you dang. p.s you are like a modern day good guy ninja. Hiding in the shadows taking out the bad guys :D --edit-- Fixed a spelling error.
- hanche 6y agoNormally, pointing out misspellings is bad form, but I can't not point out that your spelling of “popping” was rather misfortunate. I think I know how it happened, since it happens to me all the time: The brain does a lot of its work in parallel, and in mine, at least, there seems to be a separate part of the brain responsible for doubling letters as I type. And this being somewhat asynchronous, it occasionally doubles the wrong letter. (I don't know if the analysis is accurate, but the phenomenon is quite real.)
- malikNF 6y agoHaha good catch. A bit embarrassing for me, but this is hilarious. Thank you for pointing it out.
- spurgu 6y ago> The brain does a lot of its work in parallel What happens to me oftentimes, when not focusing on what I'm typing, is that I misspell words like "theme" as "team". I think it's because my muscle memory sloppily translates what my brain is hearing since it's not focusing on the context, and those two words sound similar. This is also how "your" sometimes gets mixed with "you're", even though I most definitely know the difference and spot the mistake immediately when proofreading.
- hanche 6y ago
- calrueb 6y agoThank you dang. HN has helped me develop in so many ways, and I will always be grateful for all the work you put in to make HN the magical, wacky place it is.
- buildstatements 6y ago+1 from me.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- quickthrower2 6y agoShukran Dan
- simplegeek 6y agoThank you Dan. Dan also helped promote one of my open-source projects. I'm grateful for all that he does.
- krp 6y agoThanks dang! I lurk 24/7/365 and rarely login to comment, but I always see you posting helpful things in threads, referencing other pages when comments get too long, editing titles to be more helpful, keeping discussions from devolving into arguments, and just overall keeping the quality of HN high. You're doing great and everyone here appreciates what you do!
- bayindirh 6y agoI think we also need to highlight that Dang is also responsible for creating the mechanisms and rules for an environment which nudges everyone to be better (manner-wise, research-wise, skill-wise) without breaking their soul. On the contrary, it's one of the most well-mannered/civilized discussion environment and, one of the handful places which improved me in many fronts. Of course there are exceptions but, it's much better than some of the places which just punish you for being late, being a beginner, making a mistake or just thinking differently. He might be the sole reason that I'm attached to this place like a koala defending his branch. Thanks a lot, honestly.
- erik-h 6y agoThank you Dang, I appreciate all the work you do to keep HN awesome!
- ParadiseEclipse 6y agoSeeing many comments about how dang helped them get to the front-page... I guess many of us are just unlucky
- saagarjha 6y agoHacker News is small enough that dang will probably see a decent fraction of your content. The best way to get to the front page remains submitting quality content.
- pstuart 6y agoThank you dang, for being a good guardian of such a wonderful place. Thank you for your patience when I've gotten overly excited.
- rocgf 6y agoFor a very long time, I had no idea HN had any sort of moderation and I can never remember thinking that it should. I think that's a great tell about the quality of work that dang is doing here. Thank you, dang!
- hanche 6y agoI would like to add a thanks to all the HN contributors (well, the vast majority at least) for following dang's lead and making this such a pleasant and informative forum.
- rollulus 6y agoThanks, Dang! Also: thanks, HN community. I learned an incredible lot from you, from both the content posted as well as the comments here. But this community wouldn't be here without you, Dang!
- sanketskasar 6y agoI aspire to be in Dang's position in my retirement years!!
- 11235813213455 6y agoDanke Dang
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- sgt101 6y agoJust... Thanks!
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoHear hear. Thanks dang, you set the gold standard for moderation. Or, if you prefer, you set a high bar for moderation. To mix metaphors painfully, you set a gold bar. Which just goes to show how valuable good moderation is.
- ecbu 6y agoSo many here report having been helped by dang. That's a tribute in itself. Thanks for all the advice when I was new to HN. It is appreciated.
- gioscarab 6y agoThank you Dang, you are great :)
- azalemeth 6y agoYes. Thank you Dang. The community, and more specifically 'comment SNR' in Hacker News is really fantastically high, and you deserve a lot of praise for that. I also very much like the fact that the website is basically html 1 and loads very quickly. I'm not interested in the business / startup scene at all, but the sheer breadth of expertise and community in all areas of life is very much something to celebrate.
- fabflying 6y agoMy first comment... Dang is awesome
- max23_ 6y agoThank you, dang!
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoYour work's much appreciated, DanG, thanks.
- spurgu 6y agoThis is definitely the best community out there that I know of and it's largely thanks to your efforts (along with the knowledgeable posters) - thank you dang!
- skinkestek 6y agoIt says something that this forum has researchers, astrophysicists, farmers, ux-ers, entrepreneurs, programmers, democrats, republicans, Russians, Americans etc from 13 to 80(?) discussing more or less peacefully. Thanks for moderating and thanks for actually answering my mails dang!
- Kelamir 6y agoThank you, Dang.
- graham_paul 6y agowhere is he? why is he not posting here? is dang even real? maybe dang is just the acronym for the AI system of a new startup being incubated at YC
- sbmthakur 6y agoHe is very much real. https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news/ https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...
- graham_paul 6y agowhat does @dang look like?
- saagarjha 6y agoI mean, it’s Thanksgiving holidays.
- dang 6y agoFor some reason I didn't see this thread until someone randomly mentioned it to me a few minutes ago. What a nice surprise! Thank you all.
- calmingsolitude 6y agoI'm a lurker, just made an account the other day, but have to say - you do awesome work dang - Thank you!
- piva00 6y agoThank you dang! In all my years here I needed only once to get in touch with the mod team and it was one of the most pleasant chats I had with any kind of community moderation so far. Thanks for enforcing the standards of this community through the years, I believe HN might have grown a lot in userbase but the side-effects of that have been pretty minimal so far. This is not an easy task for any online community.
- steve_adams_86 6y agoI once reached out to dang to have a comment deleted and he suggested I keep it because it was constructive and contributed to the community. I was so surprised to suddenly be engaged with a thoughtful and positive person. Thanks dang, that kind of interaction matters. I still appreciate that.
- Fnoord 6y agoImpressive how patient and kind dang can stay whilst explaining a tangent. Dankjewel dang!
- motohagiography 6y agoI'd pitch YC on how to scale dang.
- cdiamand 6y agoThanks Dang!
- Mizza 6y agoPlease, for the good of humanity, lock Dang in a room with an unlabeled set of comment training data and make an AlphaDang. Unleashing the benevolent AlphaDang moderation AI across the internet will salvage the web, and ultimately all of mankind.
- NateEag 6y agoIf you believe this will work, you have not understood what makes dang so good at his job. He's a thoughtful, understanding, caring human being, not a big pile of auto-correlating code.
- rossdavidh 6y agoThe quality of the discussion on HN remains high, while the quality of the discussion on much of the rest of the internet gets ever-worse. I routinely leave HN for the day a bit better informed than before, whereas most other sites I leave feeling way more emotional, and also probably a bit stupider (or at least less rational). Such things don't happen by accident, and a lot of quality contributors is clearly not enough, or many other sites would be as good. Thanks, dang, for your work in keeping HN worth visiting. It becomes all the more impressive with each passing year.
- tartoran 6y agoThank you and Happy Thanksgiving Dang!!
- topoftheforts 6y agoAs much as people complain about the community in here, this is the best online community I'm part of (even if as a lurker mostly), and I'm always impressed by the quality of moderation. And now that I find out it's only dang doing it, it's even more impressive. Well done and keep up the good work!
- Dumblydorr 6y agoI've used HN for years and have learned a great deal from its discussion threads. If the mark of great moderation is to remain mostly unseen while maintaining civil discourse, the mods of HN must be doing very well indeed! Kudos to you mods!
- 3PS 6y agoThank you, dang. HN wouldn't be what it is without your moderation. So often I see threads on sensitive topics threaten to spiral out of control before your interventions, which are always calm and well-chosen. You have somehow managed to keep a growing internet forum consistently respectful, and I can't imagine how difficult of a task that must be.
- bolmaster2 6y agoThank you, Dang! I didn't know about you until I read this thread. Is it really just _one_ moderator on HN? I imagine it's more than a full-time job to manage that...
- tboyd47 6y agoYes, thanks! HN is one place on the web where the commenters graciously hold each other to a high standard.
- yawnxyz 6y agoI'm pretty new to HN and didn't realize all of it was moderated by one person(s?). That's a gargantuan job, thanks so much, Dang! Does Dang ever write about what it's like to moderate HN, and what tools s/he/they have at their disposal? Also, is Dang almost like a Satoshi or is it a real person??
- Benjammer 6y agoThis article might be a good starting point if you want to know more: 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...
- dang 6y agoI'm not the only moderator, just the only one (now that Scott is gone) who posts publicly. The others do a great job!
- zoomablemind 6y agoThe "invisible hand" of dang, but very much visible result that most every one appreciates when coming to HN. Thank you!
- okokok___ 6y agobasically, "Dang moderates in a way that's good for me".
- sam1r 6y agodang, can we can change the title to dang, thank you? dang, thanks!
- morrbo 6y agoAlso chipping in to say thanks Dang. It really is appreciated and you do a great job.
- giardini 6y agoI'm looking forward to what http://n-gate.com http://n-gate.com says about this discussion.
- carapace 6y agoDang, thank you so much for what you do. I feel like I've become a better, more mature person from having participated in this forum, and that's pretty much squarely on you dude. Thank you.
- sbussard 6y agoI don’t know how anyone notices the names of people on HN but dang seems cool
- originalvichy 6y agoI wake up every morning to great content. Thanks HN Community and dang!
- skoocda 6y agoThank you Dang!
- grandiego 6y agoI always use this forum in read-only mode, but today I must do an exception: Thank you Dang!!!
- selfishgene 6y agoThanks again!
- panabee 6y agoThanks, Dang. If HN is like a flowing river that supplies the world with wisdom and perspective, Dang is the filter that removes pollutants and the keeper that adds tributaries. People around the globe are indebted to your tireless and exemplary moderation of the HN community. The kindness, graciousness, and patience you exhibit -- even in the face of nasty remarks and biting insults -- is a model for everyone to emulate.
- rstuart4133 6y agoThank you Dang
- scott31 6y agoThank you dang! (considering being critical gets you banned, this is the only comment you can make in this thread)
- dang 6y agoThere are plenty of ways to be critical on HN and people do it all the time. The best way to be critical is to supply missing information, explain how to do something more effectively or see it more accurately—then we all learn something. The main thing we don't want is people putting each other down or being gratuitously mean.
- replwoacause 6y agoYes, dang is exceptional at what he does. Thank you dang for giving us a place to enjoy civil discourse.
- pomian 6y agoThank-you Dang!
- ysfah 6y agoThank you, Dang!
- dkdk8283 6y agoI thoroughly enjoy shitposting and consider it a form of entertainment, youtube comments being one of my favorite. I’m incredibly thankful for HN but not everything needs to be great.
- peter_d_sherman 6y agoThank you Dang! Your work on HN has been tireless and awesome! (Paul Graham, if you're listening, give Dan a raise!!!)
- arsmoriendi 6y agoThank you, dang!
- saddington 6y ago+1 to that.
- aaronpkelly 6y agoIt's the only community I've found on the modern internet that I look forward to returning to on a daily basis
- tosh 6y agoresourceful
- costa_fot 6y agoHave never commented and only lurk here from time to time but I would like to extend a big thank you to dang and the moderation team.
- jx-julius 6y agoI post online in very rare occasions, and this is one. Dang, you deserve an heartfelt thank you for keeping healthy this community. In the course of some years hn has become gradually my main source of news and many times the comments are actually more interesting than the story itself! Considering the present state of the web, this is almost a miracle. There is no place like home: thanks to your efforts hn is a safe place for me.