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> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor? Would you want to moderate Reddit? I get that Apollo is in a good position to take their us
by devjab 3y ago
> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?
Would you want to moderate Reddit? I get that Apollo is in a good position to take their users with them, but it's not like it's going to be easy to build a Reddit when what you've made so far has been a frontend for Reddit and some mobile widget spin-offs.
Many of us can make a frontpage for hacker news in a few hours, some might even be able to grow a userbase on it but that doesn't mean we can do what dang does.
- newZWhoDis 3y agoMany of us would prefer dang only removed spam, or moved off topic post to bantz
- phreack 3y agoAbsolutely not, dang's work is nothing short of miraculous and I don't know of any other forumlike place that's this civil at this scale. Hope he keeps at it in this way for a long time.
- psd1 3y agoThe outcome of moderation here is very good, and changing policy has a high chance of damaging the value of HN. I would not risk secondary effects, myself. But I would enjoy HN more with a soupcon of joking (currently considered zero-value). I benefit from my bread being leavened, I like programming tutorials with humour. So it's understandable why people might want to change the policy.