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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by dougSF70 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:52PM (#38019369)
Same thing happened on this site. To this day most comments and discussions are between the two HN moderators using a panopoly of usernames and ip-cloaking.
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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by ngngngng on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:04PM (#38019486)
Why would ip-cloaking be necessary if it's your own site?
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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by dougSF70 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:14PM (#38019559)
Great question.
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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by yen223 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:03PM (#38019968)
we are all dang on this blessed day
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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by datadrivenangel on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:31PM (#38020166)
dang-mode for days?
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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by dougSF70 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:05PM (#38019980)
Indeed.
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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by tfsh on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:22PM (#38020591)
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic, however it doesn't translate well in online discussions. So I'll take your comment at face value and provide you with what I hope to be an illuminating thought exercise.

According to Dang there are (or were) 13,000 comments a day [1], if we assume "most" to be ~6501 with an average comment length of 65 words, that's 422,565 or ~211,000 words per day from our two gracious moderators. Assuming the standard working hours of nine to five, that would equate to 26,375 words per hour or 439 words per minute, coincidentally breaking many records.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140

(yes, I realise this comment is slightly OTT, but I was interested to see what the raw numbers would be)

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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by dougSF70 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:11PM (#38020876)
Dang, is that you?
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