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>>codetr+(OP)
Congrats Dang, you have done a wonderful job so far and moderate one of the most fantastic online communities out there. I am sure most of the job feels somewhat thankless but I want to let you know I(and many many other users on this site) appreciate your hard work and dedication.

>>subsub+2k
If by “finest” you mean a Reddit mob mentality for tech, then yes I completely agree with this statement.

>>codedd+Vw
What do you think we could do differently? Serious question.

I don't like the mob thing either but it's how large group dynamics on the internet work (by default). We try to mitigate it where we can but there's not a lot of knowledge about how to do that.

>>dang+HC
Make humor legal again on HN for a start?

And either ban "this is offensive" comments or politics altogether.

>>HopenH+S21
Humor has always been "legal" on HN! But it's a tricky business because most people vastly overestimate how funny their jokes are. I always refer to scott_s about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289.

Re politics: it's not possible to ban that altogether, nor would it fit HN's mandate of intellectual curiosity to do so. For past explanations see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so.... If there are questions I haven't answered there, I'd be happy to answer them.