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Comment by pclark | Hacker News Reader

awesome.

News.YC is still my primary source for most news, it's an amazing community.

I've been reading News.YC for last few months and it's now my primary source of IT news/discussion. While I restrain myself from posting sometime because I'm not perfectly fluent in english, I have deep admiration for the community and it's insight on the "hacker" world.

Thanks alot!

I think that around here it's more about what you have to say than about being able to do so in perfect english. Besides it's a great way to learn...

So if you have something to add the conversation do so. Even if it isn't perfect english :-)

In fact, you're likely to receive a friendly correction on severe grammar or semantic errors.

yes - with an emphasis on friendly.

Thanks, it's easier to participate when you know that your interlocutors are able to understand that just because you don't master their language perfectly do not mean that your ideas are any less valuable.

Two months ago I was worried that with the Obama surge things would break apart and collapse and become generic as a site like Reddit's become. To my surprise, it's managed to hold together incredibly well. And I love it: this is absolutely the best community I know of on the Internet.

"it" didn't magically hold together. that was the work of the editors! if you read the site with showdead turned on in your profile, you'll see that a record number of users and submissions are getting killed.

just to be clear, that's not me screaming censorship. it's rare for me to see a dead comment or submission that i wouldn't have killed myself, if i had the power to do it.

Yep! I flag a lot of stuff in the new section. I'm just always surprised to see how effective that is at pruning the site.

Besides the excellent moderation, another huge contributor is that instead of being a generic medium for posting articles and discussion, like slashdot, HN is founded on pg, in a sense. His ethos is the site's ethos.

yes - but without the cult-like persona following that often arises in situations like these.

Which both he and us probably thinks is good.

without the cult-like persona following

To be fair, maybe a little cult-like persona following...

Are you trying to get excommunicated?

I agree, and what's more, It feels "livelier" to me lately, which could be the feel of the growing population. I'm not worried though, the discussions have continued to be excellent.

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