Comment by giantrobot

I agree with your point on Slashdot's moderation. In the 25 (ow) or so years I've been reading Slashdot it's been very rare to see genuinely bad comments remain at a 4 or 5 or genuinely good comments buried at -1. The semi random distribution of mod points and meta moderation have been highly effective.

Slashdot didn't really ever fall prey to the sort of manipulation that destroyed Digg or has made Reddit's major subreddits a cesspool. HN seems to skirt by on being slightly more niche and dang's tireless moderation efforts.