The author seems more than ok with receiving these types of comments and almost seems to be fishing for them... Great writeup, but the number of times he's mentioned that it would be 'ok' to thank him or give him praise seems a bit over the top
> If you have any questions or comments, _or just want to thank me_, feel free to email me....
Definitely sounds like a good idea. Man, there are so many improvements I wish HN would make, but everytime I see a good idea, it gets completely ignored, downvoted into oblivion, or removed by the mods.
Moderators are the people who govern a subreddit, so naturally they are the ones who are most invested in a subreddit, and ones who will have to pay the bill each month if no one else volunteers, or watch their sub die.
> I as a user would certainly pay $10/yr to keep subreddits I care most about going on.
How many subreddits and how many years would you be willing to do this for? This might be feasible for subs like r/AskReddit, r/iama, and the other big ones, but as many other people in this thread have mentioned, "powerhouse" Reddit users are the ones that don't follow the terrible front page subs, and have found their niche. One of my favorite subs to go to, r/tabbletennis, has only about 2k subscribers, and I'm sure that there are more subs that certain people love, but have even less subscribers.
My point is that the logical point for payment would be through a mod, and I'm sure that outside of the larger subs, mods would be the ones footing the bill. This is a very dangerous game as mods are the pillars upon which Reddit stand, and aggravating them would pretty much be the death of Reddit.
This is a terrible, terrible idea. The mods of each subreddit are what keep the subreddit alive, and subreddits are the building blocks of Reddit. There are mods who put tons and tons of time maintaining the quality of their sub(s), and they are volunteers and don't get paid for any of their work. Asking them to "pony up" their own money would, with no doubt in my mind, drive them away and completely destroy Reddit. You are grossly over-estimating the number of mods who would "help foot the bill," and completely forgetting about how much hatred Reddit would get form the community if this was implemented.
If Reddit considered this strategy for monetization, they'd be much better off shooting off their foot, then shooting their other foot.
Holy text walls batman :-). Great read though, great writers in that thread and definitely learned a fair share about feudalism (though probably won't remember it for long...)
Agreed. Not sure why the top post ITT is a rant about copyright law vs trademark laws. @futurestack never claimed legal rights to the name, he's just saying that what New Relic did was a total dick move.
Ugh what why??? What a terrible way to conduct things. This was the top voted post on HN today, and there was great discussion happening. In the future, please consider letting good discussions about HN continue, instead of immediately censoring criticisms of the site.
This looks awesome! Thanks so much for this. I have a sort of unrelated question that I'd like to ask, since you implemented this so well. On one of my current side projects, I was also trying to implement scrolling by j/k, but couldn't find a nice way to do it. Could you explain how you managed to do it? I have something that works, but it's really jerky, and doesn't accelerate properly like yours does. Thanks again for this awesome site!
> If you have any questions or comments, _or just want to thank me_, feel free to email me....