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For 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/t
by gkoberger 6y ago
For 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