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I'm amazed that you created an HN account in 2014 but that this is your first comment. How did you resist the temptation to comment for so many years?
by rahimnathwani 2y ago
I'm amazed that you created an HN account in 2014 but that this is your first comment. How did you resist the temptation to comment for so many years?
- sejje 2y agoI asked dang once and he said like 1% of visitors comment.
- rahimnathwani 2y agoI had assumed that the majority of accounts are created when the owner first wants to write a comment (or post a submission). I wonder whether dang meant 1% of registered visitors, or 1% of visitors.
- andyferris 2y agoI remember originally registering in order to upvote, not to comment or submit. I'm not sure how common that is but it is a much less scary way to begin to contribute.
- sejje 2y agoYou can't vote until you have 500 karma
- MrDOS 2y agoYou can't downvote until you have 500 karma. You can upvote posts and comments right out of the gate, AFAIK.
- mediumsmart 2y agoconfirmed - I just crossed the 500 line and the downvote triangle appeared below the upvote triangle
- dang 2y agoIIRC it was the latter.
- econ 2y agoI'm curious what percentage responds to replies to their comments. I think it is quite high here.
- mattwright 2y agoI read the site (via hckrnews.com, prefer chronological ordering) nearly every day, and have for a long time. You may not be surprised at what being known for some of the worst code on the internet does for one's willingness to post things under one's own name. ;) That said, I have a different, older account that I have occasionally posted under when I can't resist temptation.
- kragen 2y agoI want to thank you for Matt's Script Archive. I never actually used it, and I often had to help novice Perl programmers who'd gotten bad ideas from it and were writing terrible code, but in my book that's far better than if they had found the world of programming too forbidding to approach. You're responsible for opening the world of programming to many people, and I appreciate that.
- mattwright 2y agoheh, thanks! :) To be fair, the feedback has always been more positive than negative.
- jart 2y agoThank you for keeping your site up all these years. Looking at your website brings me back to my childhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xwY5ciOOC0&t=144s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xwY5ciOOC0&t=144s
- kragen 2y agoAlthough you can't see them, there are four upvotes on my comment, and it seems more reasonable to interpret them as agreement than as praise for my rather pedestrian prose or surprise at the rather quotidian ideas it expresses.
- McGlockenshire 2y agoDespite the imperfections in your work, you still contributed something amazing to the internet. Even the imperfections ended up helping people. Thank you.