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At the end of the day, dang decides what goes on HN, and all the voting and gaming is just advice how him and his software to consider. It's not a constitutiona
by hgsgm 3y ago
At the end of the day, dang decides what goes on HN, and all the voting and gaming is just advice how him and his software to consider. It's not a constitutional democracy.
- dang 3y agoTo me it kind of is a constitutional democracy. We decide the rules of the system (constitution) and the community votes within that system (democracy). I've used this metaphor a fair bit over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20constitutional&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....