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Shout out to dang for all the hard work at moderating he does--there's going to be a lot of flagged comments to slog through in the coming days if this thread i

Shout out to dang for all the hard work at moderating he does--there's going to be a lot of flagged comments to slog through in the coming days if this thread is any indication

sanderjd 2y ago
Maybe because of how good he is at moderation, I would say that this seems to be the least awful one of these threads that we've had during the Trump era.
- ThrowawayR2 2y ago
  That's because the US west coast is just waking up and sitting down at their computers right about now. The next few hours will undoubtedly be, um, challenging for the moderators.
  - alex1138 2y ago
    Possibly but HN still runs on a fairly more niche (this is not an insult) reputation system, it's not Reddit which is known to absolutely everybody
xnorswap 2y ago
Also shout out to HN for fixing whatever it was that caused threads as large as this to slow down the whole of HN to the point where loading any thread would take forever.
- sctb 2y ago
  That's also dang.
  - MarcelOlsz 2y ago
    Give that man a raise.
ugh123 2y ago
Seriously. Managing these threads must feel like tax season for a CPA
- dang 2y ago
  Believe it or not, the hardest part right now is Javascript's lack of tail recursion. The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing on this thread because there are so many comments. Not sure whether it's more efficient to fix these errors first, or just power through moderating the thread manually, but boy does the latter suck.
  - arp242 2y ago
    I have a little extension I wrote for myself to improve some things, and that's also having difficulty. So yeah, not just you.
  - broodbucket 2y ago
    The hardest part of moderating a big, high-traffic, heated political thread being JavaScript's lack of tail recursion is the most HN thing I've ever seen.
  - xnx 2y ago
    > The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing Throw more hardware at it! Get a maxed-out Macbook same day delivered. Server(s?) seems to be holding up well given what must be record activity levels.
  - ckcheng 2y ago
    > Javascript's lack of tail recursion Even in Safari? [1] [1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563 https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563
    - dang 2y ago
      The software I'm talking about is, alas, a Chrome extension.
bru3s 2y ago
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Shout out to dang for all the hard work at moderating he does--there's going to be a lot of flagged comments to slog through in the coming days if this thread is any indication

sanderjd 2y ago

Maybe because of how good he is at moderation, I would say that this seems to be the least awful one of these threads that we've had during the Trump era.

ThrowawayR2 2y ago
That's because the US west coast is just waking up and sitting down at their computers right about now. The next few hours will undoubtedly be, um, challenging for the moderators.
- alex1138 2y ago
  Possibly but HN still runs on a fairly more niche (this is not an insult) reputation system, it's not Reddit which is known to absolutely everybody

xnorswap 2y ago

Also shout out to HN for fixing whatever it was that caused threads as large as this to slow down the whole of HN to the point where loading any thread would take forever.

sctb 2y ago
That's also dang.
- MarcelOlsz 2y ago
  Give that man a raise.

ugh123 2y ago

Seriously. Managing these threads must feel like tax season for a CPA

dang 2y ago
Believe it or not, the hardest part right now is Javascript's lack of tail recursion. The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing on this thread because there are so many comments. Not sure whether it's more efficient to fix these errors first, or just power through moderating the thread manually, but boy does the latter suck.
- arp242 2y ago
  I have a little extension I wrote for myself to improve some things, and that's also having difficulty. So yeah, not just you.
- broodbucket 2y ago
  The hardest part of moderating a big, high-traffic, heated political thread being JavaScript's lack of tail recursion is the most HN thing I've ever seen.
- xnx 2y ago
  > The browser extension I rely on for moderation (written in Arc and transpiled to JS) is stack-overflowing Throw more hardware at it! Get a maxed-out Macbook same day delivered. Server(s?) seems to be holding up well given what must be record activity levels.
- ckcheng 2y ago
  > Javascript's lack of tail recursion Even in Safari? [1] [1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563 https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563
  - dang 2y ago
    The software I'm talking about is, alas, a Chrome extension.

bru3s 2y ago

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