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Discussion on: I have been banned from Lobste.rs, ask me anything.

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Ben Halpern

Since you're newish here, what have you thought about dev.to thus far?

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Giacomo Tesio • Edited

Well, so far it feels good. :-)

The core feature of a community, to me, is the curiosity of members.

To a hacker, curiosity means intellectual honesty, as you want to learn more than you want to win an argument. So far I've got good dialogues here and this is a good sign.

Also, I like that everybody can read dev.to with JavaScript disabled.

I'm a bit confused by the markdown flavor here, since I cannot use the usual "double spaces at eol" to put a BR tag. But I can live with it. :-)

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Ben Halpern

Thanks for the feedback. Markdown flavors are really tough to get right, but we'll try to bring clarity and/or configuration as things progress.

want to learn more than you want to win an argument.

Of course, as an administrator, we hope all members keep the dialog constructive, and I think this is a great approach.

What we try to encourage is the asking of questions rather than always just commenting on posts and articles. Usually, OP would love to elaborate on certain parts.

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Giacomo Tesio

I think it's a good approach.

"Good question!" Is the best compliment an hacker can do.

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Giacomo Tesio

Another little feedback about dev.to:

  • I loved the Sponsor settings: I think that it's very respectful of people that share contents here
  • I loved the RSS import feature
  • I'd like to have access to basic log info about my articles here, to build a poor man analytics (even just referrals and visit time would do)