How does Hacker News moderation work?
Being a Groupme admin of a .. group. I had trouble even maintaining the discussion topic related to the group's purpose. I can only imagine how hard it might be doing here, are there tips to maintaining good online communities? How does HN do it this well?
Reading dang's comments for an hour or two - maybe start following threads from https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang - will give you some idea! I think I've learnt more from him than anyone on this site, and a large fraction of the awesome, super-impressive, inspiring comments I've read on here have been his. A lot of them explain his thinking, principles, aims, practices etc, some at great length.
I think the source was almost entirely written by that guy Paul Graham. The user "dang" is on this site basically 28/7. The guidelines are often waved at new users. Discussions die after a few hours. This 'community' has changed a lot in the last 12 years, so I don't know how well they're doing. Eternal September is something.