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Comment by cossray | Hacker News Reader

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

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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...

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.

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)

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.

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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