The recent post [1] "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News", should shed some light on how he moderates. If you go to the [2] Algolia API, and filter "Comm

The recent post [1] "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News", should shed some light on how he moderates. If you go to the [2] Algolia API, and filter "Comments in the last 24 hours". There's around 8,000 results. It's not really possible to keep track of that many comments and conversations (if he is a human that is). My guess is that the moderation tools help him monitor for content that needs urgent attention, to keep the community and discussion healthy... so my final answer ~10% (1,000 comments per day) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052 [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=last24h&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...