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Buy a clone of dang. Or several.
by all2 2y ago
Buy a clone of dang. Or several.
- DeathArrow 2y agoGet OpenDang from Github and run it locally.
- DenisM 2y agoWell, you jest, but what if we could create an LLM that follows dang behavior? He’s pretty low-touch on substance and mostly moderates style. An LLM should be able to copy that. If I didn’t have to work for a living I might pursue that, that would be a huge benefit to humanity.
- baxtr 2y agoThis might be easier today than before with the help of AI.
- close04 2y agoThis is missing the elephant in the room that HN is not the (or maybe even a) money bringer for YCombinator. Were this the golden goose for a publicly traded company, the decision process could quickly shift to "make me money or GTFO". Being a "benevolent dictator" moderator is the ideal model: you have clear values, a clear strategy, an overview over everything, and the unbridled power to execute. Benevolent dictatorships don't scale the moment you need more than exactly one such benevolent dictator. dang's clone will have all I mentioned above except probably slightly different of everything and now exactly half of the power to execute. And that's where it gets close to impossible to exercise the "correct" and desired level of power to support the individual values, overview, strategy. When you need 1000 moderators it becomes a crapshoot if the moderation you get is any good. And the community is only as good as the worst mods and users that are allowed in it.
- richardw 2y agoI’d say HN has generated them a huge amount of money. It’s a massive center of high quality tech discussion and HN posts have priority. Every other investment company would kill to own and run HN. What’s the value? Try set up a competitor and guess at how much it’ll cost to get all the seriously top shelf users on there.
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