I had some hilarious moderation experiences by deleting all negative responses from topics specifically chosen attract negativity. People got so mad that they couldn't rub their poop on the conversation. I respond to their mails with some of the funniest trolling in my career. Meanwhile the conversations were all love and peace among the like minded.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215601
A bunch of people skim the article (or just the title), post hot takes, then there's responses to those, and so on...