Ask HN: How does Hacker News moderation work?

Posted by catvsdog on Sunday April 10, 2022 @09:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Being a Groupme admin of a .. group. I had trouble even maintaining the discussion topic related to the group's purpose. I can only imagine how hard it might be doing here, are there tips to maintaining good online communities? How does HN do it this well?

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Re:Ask HN: How does Hacker News moderation work? by yesenadam on Monday April 11, 2022 @11:30AM (#30990160)

Reading dang's comments for an hour or two - maybe start following threads from https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang - will give you some idea! I think I've learnt more from him than anyone on this site, and a large fraction of the awesome, super-impressive, inspiring comments I've read on here have been his. A lot of them explain his thinking, principles, aims, practices etc, some at great length.

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Re:Ask HN: How does Hacker News moderation work? by formerkrogemp on Sunday April 10, 2022 @09:52PM (#30983683)

I think the source was almost entirely written by that guy Paul Graham. The user "dang" is on this site basically 28/7. The guidelines are often waved at new users. Discussions die after a few hours. This 'community' has changed a lot in the last 12 years, so I don't know how well they're doing. Eternal September is something.

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Re:Ask HN: How does Hacker News moderation work? by really_relay on Sunday April 10, 2022 @10:53PM (#30984054)

The New Yorker wrote a great article on the process. [0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

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