> I’m a mod on /r/ruby and it’s got 80,000 subscribers. I think that's smaller than Hacker News, which has only 1 or 2 moderators, whereas it appears that r/ru

> I’m a mod on /r/ruby and it’s got 80,000 subscribers. I think that's smaller than Hacker News, which has only 1 or 2 moderators, whereas it appears that r/ruby has 8 moderators? As far as scale is concerned, it looks like r/ruby had 19 comments within the past 24 hours? https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/ Whereas HN had 19 comments within the past 2 minutes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments And a site like Twitter has something like 350,000 tweets per minute. The most important difference, in my opinion, is that /r/ruby is focused on a single technical topic. In a sense, it's self-selecting and self-moderating, unlike HN or social media sites which are general-interest and include topics such as politics and other controversial social issues that are prone to generate nasty disagreements.