Yup, @dang is paid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23810452

How much?

Why do you want to know? I can't imagine how knowing that answer is going to make anything better for anyone here. Are you a mod of a similar service and need something to negotiate with? Even as a negotiating datapoint, it's only valuable if YC would hire you to moderate (which I doubt) and you can use that as leverage.

If it was public, then random users might demand more of dang, thinking that his salary justifies it.

Keeping salaries public in an industry lets you use them as a negotiating datapoint anywhere in that industry.

Not too related to the discussion, but I'm really hoping Twitch moderators start asking for a paycheck once their streamer's realtime chat reaches a certain size, as they have to stay quick and attentive for hours straight. But sadly, they often start when the streamer is smaller and work for them on their own dime and remain that way.

He recieves a few snowdogs at the end of the week.

Snowdoges?

That's inappropriate and none of your God damn business

I mean hopefully he's paid well? Making salary a private issue only hurts people in my opinion.

Yes, but your approach is wildly unhelpful. Downvote it and move on.

Or don't downvote it and disregard. It's very common on HN for people to openly discuss salaries and ask about salaries.

“Oh no! Someone asked something on the Internet that I consider inappropriate!”

You know there are communities/societies where people openly discuss their salary, right?

It's definitely none of your business, but as someone who does similar work, I'd guess in the territory of $100k–150k. (That's not how much I get paid, but I work at a much smaller and less established org.)

Worth every penny.

I'm pretty sure the HN moderators do it as a job and not just as a hobby. I remember reading this[1] a few years back when it came out, and from a quick scan it seems to support this, although it's possible in my skimming I might have misread.

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

Article about him here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

This says a lot about the biases of many journalists and why you are likely not getting a neutral viewpoint from many of them:

"Picturing the moderators responsible for steering conversation on Hacker News, I imagined a team of men who proudly self-identify as neoliberals and are active in the effective-altruism movement. (I assumed they’d be white men; it never occurred to me that women, or people of color, could be behind the site.) Meeting them, I feared, would be like participating in a live-action comment thread about the merits of Amazon Web Services or whether women should be referred to as “females.” “Debate us!” I imagined them saying, in unison, from their Aeron chairs."

That strikes me as genuinely insane. I don't understand why anyone would care what journalists have to say anymore.