And we're working on something to improve the quality of Hacker News comments.
Wait, is this implying that we're actually getting an upstream change in the HN codebase for the first time in $amount_of_time_I_am_not_aware_of_exactly?
Or perhaps some sort of cultural shift, like increased moderation and less tolerance for certain views? I can't see the latter going very well, but it's too early to tell anything.
Otherwise this is good news. However, when I read this...
Many emails pointed out that our website shows nearly all men; we'll fix that.
Wait, is this implying that we're actually getting an upstream change in the HN codebase for the first time in $amount_of_time_I_am_not_aware_of_exactly?
Or perhaps some sort of cultural shift, like increased moderation and less tolerance for certain views? I can't see the latter going very well, but it's too early to tell anything.
Otherwise this is good news. However, when I read this...
Many emails pointed out that our website shows nearly all men; we'll fix that.
I was reminded of the following: http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/uwmadison.asp. Hopefully this won't just be a clumsy doctoring for PR purposes.