[kderbe]

Thanks for being open about your moderation and intent. Folks need to understand that the alternative is not to have Homestar Runner stay on the Hacker News front page (that was never in the cards), but to go back to silent moderation. This is an improvement.

[dang]

I'm not always going to be spending all day, every day posting things like this. I'm going to do it until you're all good and sick of it, and then go back to being mostly silent—but easily accessible.

What's clear is that the community has been starved for answers at our end. It really was a classical starvation problem (algorithmically I mean): the resource stream couldn't come close to keeping up. One reason—the main reason—we're changing HN is to fix that. And we're going to err on the side of verbosity and metaness for a while until we can all relax.