Re:Show HN: Hacker News Insight
by lifeisstillgood on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:33PM
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I may not be a good representative sample, but the forums I remember were fairly niche (transatlantic life advice) and consequently small. 4chan style meltdowns were avoided but HN is on a different scale. It might be an aberration, it might be a new way to moderate / build community. I am not sure but it is a very interesting question how we got here. And is it replicable?
And if there are people who do the equivalent of full time work making it so - that's a clue to ... something
> And if there are people who do the equivalent of full time work making it so - that's a clue to ... something
dang, who seems never to sleep, surely puts in even more than full time work, and is responsible as much as anyone else for HN being what it is.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News Insight
by lifeisstillgood on Friday December 23, 2022 @05:04PM
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Absolutely. But it is his actual full time job. I think an interesting signal is when people who (#) are not paid still spend an enormous amount of time on a "thing". That's either you have found weirdos, or found some level of market fit - gold flakes in the river bed if you like.
(#) I am assuming all the people with really high submission rates are not HN moderators or otherwise employed / encouraged.
HN is the closest to the forums of yesteryear of anything I can find on today's internet, and that's definitely what I like best about it. (Not just the visual aesthetic, but also the tone and dedication to maintaining its original sense of community.)