Just to chip in a comment about the size of Usenet... I did some analysis comparing Slashdot (with distributed moderation) traffic volumes to Usenet (centraliz

Just to chip in a comment about the size of Usenet... I did some analysis comparing Slashdot (with distributed moderation) traffic volumes to Usenet (centralized moderation) in the late 90s. If I recall, the peak volume of posts to the largest (moderated?) Usenet newsgroup was about 3000 posts/day. I seem to recall it was alt.fan.rushlimbaugh or something. I don't know about the quality of moderation but I took that to be the "peak traffic a single/paired human moderator" could handle before we had databases and distributed user-moderated content. Not sure what dang et all are handling here but it seems higher than that nowdays (but not more than 10x higher with all the newer technology they've developed?)