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dooce®
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dooce® is a personal blog at dooce.com about culture and writing. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about Heather Armstrong's death as a post about her leaving her church, "On the power of a congregation". Commenters discuss its wording on being removed from church rolls versus lapsing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-to-provide-for-each-other-and-why-i-walked-away/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-10
What Hacker News says?
First sentence second paragraph of https://dooce.com/2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-... "My friend Ashley was in charge of organizing the event and asked if I’d speak knowing that I had my name removed from the church rolls earlier this year." "Lapsed" means left the church. "Removed from church rolls" means left the church
Comment linking /2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-to-provide-for-each-other-and-why-i-walked-away/
on “Heather Armstrong has died”Submitted Monetizing Hate Mail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://dooce.com/2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-...
Comment linking /2017/11/06/on-the-power-of-a-congregation-to-provide-for-each-other-and-why-i-walked-away/
on “Heather Armstrong has died”Submitted Bully Pulpit as a story · 1 points
HN discussion