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Moderators? You could have people who have over X karma (or people you hand pick) have disproportionate abilities to downvote or nuke comments/stories that are
by webwright 16y ago
Moderators?
You could have people who have over X karma (or people you hand pick) have disproportionate abilities to downvote or nuke comments/stories that are mean or dumb.
It would be easy to train a small circle of people how to moderate well. It seems nigh impossible to train the entire userbase of HN to do it.
- ww520 16y agoIf we have moderators, it's preferable to disallow commenting from moderators. Moderators should act as the facilitators. Having mod power and be able to comment just giving too much powers to a few people to voice their opinions.
- jcl 16y agoHN already has hand-picked moderators (mostly YC alums, IIRC) with the power to kill bad stories and users. This seems to have worked well for stories, but I guess it hasn't scaled to comments.