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people behave here because they don't want to burn their bridge with PG. ... This whole site is one big, ongoing public job interview. This is probably not tru
by trezor 18y ago
people behave here because they don't want to burn their bridge with PG. ... This whole site is one big, ongoing public job interview.
This is probably not true for the majority of people posting here. I suspect quite a lot of users came here from reddit when that site went the way of digg and 4chan and to them pg is just another handle on the site.
Also: Believe it or not, but I had never heard of Paul Graham before coming to this site.
- radu_floricica 18y agopg is part of why the active moderators behave the way they do. The effect ripples to all users, and creates a (planned) broken window effect. I was surprised when a few of my comments were downmodded just because they had a "reddit style". But I got the message - this is not reddit. I suspect most newcomers have the same experience, and later themselves help set the tone.