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Also, is there any particular reason that this essay is on the frontpage of both HN and Hubski? I can't think of anything that had happened recently that would spark all the upvotes on HN over a three year old essay.
No specific motivation for why I posted it here. I read it over at HN, and it related to some thinking I had been doing lately. If I find something that interests me, I'll post it. I make a point not to worry about the timing or where else it is. But it was the first time I had read this essay, actually. I'm not sure the reason why it had so many votes at HN yesterday. Something must have happened, or maybe it just resonated.
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Whatever it was it definitely brought out some interesting comments, including but not limited to accusations of manipulation of HN. The topic of dealing with trolls and other negative entities within an online community without harming the content has always been magnificently interesting to me.
On a purely unrelated note, I just realized that you and pg both have chosen two letter usernames. Did you chose mk in a sort of homage to pg as Hubski is based off of news.arc?
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On a purely unrelated note, I just realized that you and pg both have chosen two letter usernames. Did you chose mk in a sort of homage to pg as Hubski is based off of news.arc?
Yeah, I guess I did. :) I usually use markkat. I am indebted to pg. But the tables in news.arc, Oy!