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Comment by choppaface | Hacker News Reader

Thanks for sharing!! Like this story a lot better than the linked blog article. A positive example of real evidence is so much more effective than an essay of meta.

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I am glad you liked it. I know HN doesn't like the supposedly contentless "thanks for sharing" type of comments but I appreciate it and think it is important to express such sentiments. In fact, about half way in to writing my comment I almost deleted it -- thinking no one would really care. I am glad I was wrong and that I completed it.

I should add that HN doesn't like brief, content-free "+1" or "this" comments, but a few sentences explaining why you liked a comment, and why it was exceptional in some ways, is almost never a problem, and are often greatly appreciated.

For example, you'll note that choppaface's comment has not been downvoted below 0, and probably has a few upvotes.

By the way, I also very much enjoyed your comment.

Maybe HN should add a "thank you for your contribution" link alongside the "reply" link and add a filter to show/hide these thank-you posts.

We can already upvote. Although we can't see the scores it's already a simple way to acknowledge the contribution.

I loved it entirely. It was literally the first thing I read after the front page (I always read comments before the article).

I understand HN reason for not wanting countless thanks as it adds to scroll and doesnt add to the discussion... but it would be nice if they had a simple collapsible thread like reddit so once you got the gist or saw things are getting repetative you could jump down to the next main comment

Incidentally, it was this comment thread that led me to find this[1] for the same reason you list. The lack of collapsible threads has bugged me for a bit and I have been considering doing my own bookmarklet for a while but never got around to it.

[1] - https://github.com/akirk/hackernews-collapsible-threads

Sweet, thank you!

I also enjoyed this anecdote. This is a story I'll keep in the back of my mind as I progress my career.

Thank you for sharing, it was inspiring and I really liked it. Such stories from the trenches are for me an important part of why I enjoy reading HN.

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