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Thanks!

• Angostura 3y ago
  The moderation and meta-moderation system was a thing of elegant beauty.
  • mixmax 3y ago
    I'm till flabbergasted that noone stole it, it worked so well.
    • jacquesm 3y ago
      I wonder if it would work for HN.
      • throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
        It would work, the mods just don't like it
        • sltkr 3y ago
          Any source on that? I would guess it's more likely that the Slashdot moderation system is too hard to implement. It also requires a lot of finetuning (like how to determine how many moderation points to dole out to users based on their karma and activity). The Hacker News developers seem to prefer to keep things simple, so they might reject Slashdot-style moderation for being too complicated, but that doesn't mean they don't like it in principle.
          • throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
            The source is that the HN mods know about Slashdot, and people have been asking for those features here for 15 years, and they haven't been implemented. Slashdot's mod system is not complex.
    • deleted 3y ago
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    • DANmode 3y ago
      Did it work well for retaining good discussion and a community? ...or for making money?
      • Angostura 3y ago
        Good discussion and community.
    • cykros 3y ago
      Technically soylent news did, but then, they also used the whole codebase and just changed the site red.