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I think that it would be entirely practical to skim every new comment on HN given a simple chronological list without threading. HN isn’t actually that big. Me
by trevyn 8y ago
I think that it would be entirely practical to skim every new comment on HN given a simple chronological list without threading. HN isn’t actually that big.
Metafilter is another example of a small-ish, highly moderated community that does a thorough job with a small handful of dedicated moderators.
- yorwba 8y ago> I think that it would be entirely practical to skim every new comment on HN given a simple chronological list without threading. HN isn’t actually that big. The oldest comment on the first page of https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments was posted 15 minutes ago. Reading through all of them took me 5 minutes. Ignoring the fact that posting frequency varies throughout the day, reading every comment would require a single person to spend 8 hours a day every day. So it seems possible to moderate HN like that, but I really wouldn't want to be in dang's shoes monitoring the contextless comment stream all day.
- trevyn 8y agoRead, sure, but skimming for the things that moderators call people out for took me about 30 seconds.