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Dang probably deleted it after he reprimanded you in the thread... why not ask him?

by theCrowing 4y ago

walnutclosefarm 4y ago
Because I have no idea who he or she was. The comment is deleted, and I can't remember the handle that posted it.
- Kiro 4y ago
  The comments are still there. "dang" is a user and the admin of this site. Maybe you're missing it because the subthread has been collapsed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119476
  - walnutclosefarm 4y ago
    Thanks. It was indeed folded. My ignorance is showing, I guess.
    - Kiro 4y ago
      It is however interesting that the subthread has been folded. It normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted enough but here it looks like dang forced it upon himself (I guess because he misread your comment).
      - aliqot 4y ago
        > t normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted Incorrect, this has happened to me before and while being up about 10 points and not flagged I still got folded. I am perceiving a change in HN moderation, like Dang's starting to act different since the site's been growing, and I noticed particularly when he's on late at night, HN behaves a little differently. I haven't devised a test for this particular late-night hypothesis, but you see the behavior enough times and you start to wonder, maybe I should be testing this.
        dang 4y ago
        By all means do test these things. I think you'll find in the majority of cases that the patterns are illusory. People routinely make up explanations for what they think they're perceiving—and to be fair, it's almost impossible not to—but those are almost all false. If you did find a real pattern, it would be interesting to know about.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    One thing I found impressive about this thread was that dang had a knee jerk reaction that the criticism was about religion and when it was pointed out that it wasn’t, he apologized.
nkurz 4y ago
For obscure reasons it's not made obvious, but Dan Gackle (dang) is the moderator of the site. He posts like a normal user, but you are often expected to understand that he is speaking as moderator. Mostly this system works, although occasionally it can be confusing, especially to new users.
dang 4y ago
We never delete posts outright unless the author specifically asks us to. The most we would otherwise do is kill a post, which puts it in the [dead] state, and anyone who wants to can see all those posts by turning 'showdead' on in their profile. Even that is not something we usually do; most [dead] posts get there either by user flags or because software did it (e.g. because a site or an account is banned). Other than that, as other users have pointed out already, we might make a subthread collapsed by default. This is more common.

Dang probably deleted it after he reprimanded you in the thread... why not ask him?

walnutclosefarm 4y ago

Because I have no idea who he or she was. The comment is deleted, and I can't remember the handle that posted it.

Kiro 4y ago
The comments are still there. "dang" is a user and the admin of this site. Maybe you're missing it because the subthread has been collapsed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34119476
- walnutclosefarm 4y ago
  Thanks. It was indeed folded. My ignorance is showing, I guess.
  - Kiro 4y ago
    It is however interesting that the subthread has been folded. It normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted enough but here it looks like dang forced it upon himself (I guess because he misread your comment).
    - aliqot 4y ago
      > t normally only happens to comments after they have been flagged or downvoted Incorrect, this has happened to me before and while being up about 10 points and not flagged I still got folded. I am perceiving a change in HN moderation, like Dang's starting to act different since the site's been growing, and I noticed particularly when he's on late at night, HN behaves a little differently. I haven't devised a test for this particular late-night hypothesis, but you see the behavior enough times and you start to wonder, maybe I should be testing this.
      - dang 4y ago
        By all means do test these things. I think you'll find in the majority of cases that the patterns are illusory. People routinely make up explanations for what they think they're perceiving—and to be fair, it's almost impossible not to—but those are almost all false. If you did find a real pattern, it would be interesting to know about.
- scarface74 4y ago
  One thing I found impressive about this thread was that dang had a knee jerk reaction that the criticism was about religion and when it was pointed out that it wasn’t, he apologized.

nkurz 4y ago

For obscure reasons it's not made obvious, but Dan Gackle (dang) is the moderator of the site. He posts like a normal user, but you are often expected to understand that he is speaking as moderator. Mostly this system works, although occasionally it can be confusing, especially to new users.

dang 4y ago

We never delete posts outright unless the author specifically asks us to. The most we would otherwise do is kill a post, which puts it in the [dead] state, and anyone who wants to can see all those posts by turning 'showdead' on in their profile. Even that is not something we usually do; most [dead] posts get there either by user flags or because software did it (e.g. because a site or an account is banned). Other than that, as other users have pointed out already, we might make a subthread collapsed by default. This is more common.