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I'll concur, based on the experience of colleagues that both running HN and participating don't mix well. People running or moderating a site have a responsibi
by tlb 5y ago
I'll concur, based on the experience of colleagues that both running HN and participating don't mix well.
People running or moderating a site have a responsibility to be impartial. And no matter how impartial they actually are, they'll be accused of every conceivable bias. It makes it frustrating to participate when every comment becomes fodder for each side thinking you're shilling for the other side.
For example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922311 and the parent it's responding to.
- sokoloff 5y agoI feel sympathy (not exactly the perfect word, but close) for dang in many situations, but the obvious care he has for the community coupled with a practical inability to really engage on equal footing must be frustrating (unless via a second handle, which we’d never know about).
- dan-robertson 5y agoWell he still does post links and comment on articles from time to time (both as 'dang and 'gruseom, and I think a lot of users don’t make the connection). I think he just isn’t a super active commenter (and the things he likes to comment on don’t show up so often). Obviously he can’t really weigh in and pick sides with some random flame war in the comments.