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1. webwri+(OP)[view] [source] 2011-04-03 22:34:09
Moderators?

You could have people who have over X karma (or people you hand pick) have disproportionate abilities to downvote or nuke comments/stories that are mean or dumb.

It would be easy to train a small circle of people how to moderate well. It seems nigh impossible to train the entire userbase of HN to do it.

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2. ww520+gd[view] [source] 2011-04-04 03:17:59
>>webwri+(OP)
If we have moderators, it's preferable to disallow commenting from moderators. Moderators should act as the facilitators. Having mod power and be able to comment just giving too much powers to a few people to voice their opinions.
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3. jcl+3j[view] [source] 2011-04-04 05:45:34
>>webwri+(OP)
HN already has hand-picked moderators (mostly YC alums, IIRC) with the power to kill bad stories and users. This seems to have worked well for stories, but I guess it hasn't scaled to comments.
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