Sharing them is a catch-22 situation. If I tell you what they are, it might bring in more interesting people, but it also runs the risk of pushing it closer to

Sharing them is a catch-22 situation. If I tell you what they are, it might bring in more interesting people, but it also runs the risk of pushing it closer to an exponential growth curve that overwhelms the (usually volunteer) moderation. What seems to keep HN from going too far off the deep end is: 1: A clear, minimal set of guidelines that covers all bases 2: A mod who seems to have a good sense of where to enforce it and, I hope, gets paid to do it 3: A community that mostly seems to check itself 4: A custom forum that allows experimentation with system-level experiments in moderation and someone to develop those features