> Moderated communities beat unmoderated ones on any metric you can name. Prevalence of power trips? Let's face it, almost nobody gets paid to moderate, so th

> Moderated communities beat unmoderated ones on any metric you can name. Prevalence of power trips? Let's face it, almost nobody gets paid to moderate, so the compensation has to be something else. I never had much interest in IRC because the format (live/real-time) has a much higher moderation (op) burden, more powerfully attracting people who like power trips and narrative control. The solution isn't Galilean absolute-frame-of-reference moderation. It's something more relativistic, like the PGP Web of Trust. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25405128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25405128