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Because I have no idea who he or she was. The comment is deleted, and I can't remember the handle that posted it.
by 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 agoThe 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 agoThanks. It was indeed folded. My ignorance is showing, I guess.
- Kiro 4y agoIt 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 agoBy 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 agoOne 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.