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Re: Soy, Pipe, HN observations

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:26:35 +0000
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> Interesting evolution and gradual improvement of both sites that spun
> out of the Slashcott.
 
> I'm still hitting Hacker News pretty frequently, which has a huge
> community and a lot of interesting articles.  But it seems particularly
> prone to coder/entrepreneur wankfest articles like "Why I built my
> responsibe web app using node.js and not X" which turn out to just be
> personal blog rants with a relatively unscientific feel to them.  On
> the other hand, it seems the nerdiest news for nerds site out there at
> present. 

Wish I'd waited a second longer, to add this clip from Hacker News,
which is going to be run by another team now that Mr. Graham is
stepping down.  (HN is bigger than I thought: this page has received
80,559 views as I post this).  For me, it's interesting to see HN
struggling with 'decaying comment threads.'

http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news

//---- Clip
Finally, I'm delighted to announce that Daniel Gackle (pronounced
Gackley), who has already been doing most of the moderation for the
last 18 months, is going to join YC full-time to be in charge of the HN
community.  Many HN users know Daniel as gruseom, though now he's going
to switch to the slightly more legit sounding dang. Daniel is one of
most thoughtful (in both senses of the word) people I've ever met. It
kills him when people say mean, stupid things in comment threads.
Moderating an anonymous forum is hard, and the fact that we get roughly
equal grief for HN comments being bad and for being too quick to ban
people is a sign he's been doing a good job so far.  He has plans for
new tools that may not merely arrest the decay of HN comment threads,
but actually improve them.
//---- Clip

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Soy, Pipe observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 16:26 +0000
  Re: Soy, Pipe, HN observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 16:47 +0000
  Re: Soy, Pipe observations wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-31 16:58 +0000
    Re: Soy, Pipe observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 17:12 +0000
  Re: Soy, Pipe observations "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-02 15:42 -0600
    Re: Soy, Pipe observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 14:05 +0000

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