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Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI normally find that, unless an essay is about mathematics, if it is based on a binary argument then it's just false because it's too simplistic to be based in reality. In this case saying there's only "trolls" and "super awesome people!" is childish. There's a much more interesting spectrum of human behavior online that doesn't fit into these convenient categories. To then say there's only two types of "trolls" is again to reduce the argument to just two boolean…
I think news.yc has a 5th troll behavior and it's down modding a comment because they disagree with it. I have been down modded a number of times not for saying something rude or stupid just something that others don't agree with. I tend to down mod rude and aggressive people on here and I also up mod people who I think have been down modded unfairly. I am not sure if I am alone with my way of thinking.
Wow, 8,000 uniques a day. Those were the days. Now we get over 90,000.
Wow, thanks. I'd forgotten about that one. HN has had many ups and downs with this issue. While I think PG's statement "so far the experiment seems to be working" still holds up, I've also been noticing many ill-spirited and nitpicking comments lately. It's a constant problem.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 508
- Total comments
- 491
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-02-16 | PG on trollsFirst breakout | sharpshoot | 137 | 183 |
| 2011-03-24 | Trolls (2008) | revorad | 7 | 2 |
| 2011-12-14 | Trolls (2008)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | evo_9 | 360 | 303 |
| 2014-12-27 | Trolls (2008) | malisper | 3 | 3 |
| 2022-02-09 | Trolls (2008)Hall induction | ColinWright | 1 | 0 |