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DoreenMichele is a well-known HN user and many of her posts have appeared here. She often makes a new domain per blog topic, but I presume readers recognize her username. The upvotes seem organic, as far as I can tell. There's no issue.

You've posted three dismissive comments to this thread. Could you please stop? If you don't like this reading material, there are 29 other articles on the front page, and don't miss the 'past' link at the top that points to all the most popular threads from past days.

It would be good to review the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I did not recognise the username, but will take that into consideration for future. For me, it looked like a request for money and I felt it was not right, but I see I am mistaken and would like to apologise to Michele.

That's really nice of you, and I'm sure not only she but everyone reading this will feel a bit better for it.

Are all your "nots" in the right places?

They were not.

Fixed; thanks!

Dang, this is irrelevant to the topic but I needed to ask it. Are you an individual or several 'users/employees/maintainers' using the same username? Your omnipresent has always been intriguing to me

It is one guy. He is full-time employed by YC to maintain HN.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

I believe Dang is Daniel. There was an interesting New Yorker article about HN's moderation a while back you might enjoy: http://archive.is/QiDtu.

I was amused to learn that he's "Dan G" and not "dang!", too. I still think of him as "dang!", though.

I also really appreciate the thankless job he does here. Thanks, Dan! (Does that mean it's not thankless now... Should I edit this comment? Arrghh!)

It's both: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296

(The inimitable DonHopkins provided the perfect gloss)

Like Doreen Traylor, Dan Gackle is a figment of your imagination. But he's very polite and well behaved, so he's a figment I enjoy being acquainted with via internet.

Just a guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVHq4xo5wcA

To answer your question more directly: yes I'm a person, and we'd never have multiple people hide behind the same username. That corporate hologram shit makes my skin crawl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBPFNX23mU#t=6

> That corporate hologram shit makes my skin crawl.

One reason that I love HN is that the primary mod says shit like that.

The job seems more like M. Piedlourde.

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