I love this insight, I just recently learned about the hidden HN feature to favorite comments and used it for the first time to favorite your comment. It's always a pleasure to read your comments on HN, I noticed your handle popping up here and there and would like to thank you for your contributions. If you had a collection of all your comments on HN printed in a book I think I would buy it:)
Funny thing, in the past few weeks I started making more HN comments just to get a feel for it. Of the lot of them some are insightful, some helpful, some joking, many boring, and one mean. The one mean one is the highest rated.
This is only tangentially related, but has anyone done similar for HN comments? I'd be curious to know who responds to whom on particular topics, etc....
I don't even... It makes me start thinking how many comments on HN are like this. I used to feel like sometimes comments on HN is as valuable as the original story. This makes me think about how many other well-formed read-title-only comments in disguise.
My comments seem to strike a chord with a lot of HN users, I've had more than one person go through my comment history and reply to days or weeks old comments of mine.
BTW, it's a bit misleading how many comments my essays have, because for a while I used links to HN comment threads as my "blog comments." Most of those comments aren't from regular HN readers.
Amazing effort, @gmf & team. Super impressed & for years i have cribbed there is not a good way to save, with context, really AWESOME & insightful HN comments, for future perusal, archiving & searching.
IMHO, it does not seem tacky at all to share the amount, especially as a fellow hn reader explicitly asked to know it.
Obviously, you have every right, no to disclose it, for whatever reason.
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