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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by onion2k on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:11AM (#20643150)
I've been reading "dang" as the word "dang!" without realising it's actually "dan g" all this time. :)
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by dang on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:42PM (#20650640)
It's both. That's why.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093 from way back when.

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by lordnacho on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:31AM (#20643241)
I thought it was a Chinese name
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by bookofjoe on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:26PM (#20650857)
Related: My daughter's second grade teacher was Mrs. Emily Chewning, of Scottish extraction. She told me that when the first parent-teacher conferences happened, a number of parents were surprised at her appearance: kids always referred to her as "Miss Chew" and from the sound of the name, parents assumed she was Chinese.
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by benjaminbrodie on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:57PM (#20651224)
You shouldn't just mention her full name like that lol bruh
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by hoorayimhelping on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:27AM (#20643843)
Same! I think I'm going to keep referring to Dan G as dang, cause it's a really endearing name for a moderator in my opinion.
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by shawnps on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:17AM (#20643183)
I thought it was a surname Dang.
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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by pieter_mj on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:22AM (#20643202)
"Woo sh"!

Joking aside, if there were to be forum awards, Hacker News would top it all the time. Best moderated, high level, most interesting discussion forum award goes to ...

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Re:The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News by tomcam on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:10PM (#20651034)
Most of my family is Asian. It was self-evident to me for the last six or so years that he was Vietnamese :0
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