Comment by CSSer

5 days ago

Friendly reminder that you are on a forum with essentially one benevolent moderator.

The model only works because of the subject matter filtering 99% of potential users. One good moderator can’t possibly scale to a network the size of Reddit.

  • Subject matter and UX. HN has to remain its 2005 era minimally functional self to keep people out.

Isn't dang a paid employee? If so, incentives are different. Its a day job that he could get fired from if he deviates from his main duties. (dang you are pretty decent don't get fired please).

  • Heh, according to the other guy he could get fired and replaced with AI because of his ego. For the less than subtle, I wasn't implying that it was good or bad. I was just pointing out the irony of criticizing centralized moderation on a site with centralized moderation.

    As for whether or not pay makes a difference, I think you probably have a point, but I'm sure there's still wiggle room there.

    • >just pointing out the irony of criticizing centralized moderation on a site with centralized moderatio

      Eh?

      HN falls under centralized moderation for sure.

      Reddit not quite so much. That's more of 'middle management moderation'.