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It can very well go back, just let it's popularity die down again and you'll be back there eventually.

sehr 12y ago
It can, but from my experience it just doesn't happen enough. The deal breaker is usually lazy modding. Can't blame them because it isn't a job per se, but it does have a huge effect on submission & post content. Really makes you appreciate the team here at HN keeping things on lock after a while
- zanny 12y ago
  But the HN team is no different from a set of good subreddit admins. As an example of a bigger "good" one, askhistorians is insanely stringent on deleting posts from non-experts. You get insanely detailed recollections of historical events, its lovely to read most of the time. A subreddit is as good as its moderators are at managing it. In almost all ways, HN is just one of the subreddits I frequent.
- ixwt 12y ago
  >The deal breaker is usually lazy modding. This is pretty much it. There are some important cases I could point out to this as well. For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/comments/1z9fco/attention_we_are_on_the_front_page_and_therefore/ http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/comments/1z9fco/atte... This particular subreddits mods wanted to get more subscribers (their reason being they were almost at 30k subscribers). They made an advertisement of sorts and put it in another, larger, mainstream subreddit. They prepared for it. And all the new content and comments were heavily moderated. The regulars also helped the moderators with reports for those comments against the rules. Another good example of heavy moderating is http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience . They don't tolerate any crap. Jokes, anecdotes, or off-topic posts are quickly reported, downvoted, and deleted. Most questions are labeled to the pertinent field. They are also a default subreddit.
  - prawn 12y ago
    Something like r/askhistorians is even stricter and excellent as a result.

sehr 12y ago

It can, but from my experience it just doesn't happen enough. The deal breaker is usually lazy modding. Can't blame them because it isn't a job per se, but it does have a huge effect on submission & post content. Really makes you appreciate the team here at HN keeping things on lock after a while

zanny 12y ago
But the HN team is no different from a set of good subreddit admins. As an example of a bigger "good" one, askhistorians is insanely stringent on deleting posts from non-experts. You get insanely detailed recollections of historical events, its lovely to read most of the time. A subreddit is as good as its moderators are at managing it. In almost all ways, HN is just one of the subreddits I frequent.
ixwt 12y ago
>The deal breaker is usually lazy modding. This is pretty much it. There are some important cases I could point out to this as well. For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/comments/1z9fco/attention_we_are_on_the_front_page_and_therefore/ http://www.reddit.com/r/redditgetsdrawn/comments/1z9fco/atte... This particular subreddits mods wanted to get more subscribers (their reason being they were almost at 30k subscribers). They made an advertisement of sorts and put it in another, larger, mainstream subreddit. They prepared for it. And all the new content and comments were heavily moderated. The regulars also helped the moderators with reports for those comments against the rules. Another good example of heavy moderating is http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience . They don't tolerate any crap. Jokes, anecdotes, or off-topic posts are quickly reported, downvoted, and deleted. Most questions are labeled to the pertinent field. They are also a default subreddit.
- prawn 12y ago
  Something like r/askhistorians is even stricter and excellent as a result.