On: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (2019)

[ChrisArchitect]

Annual submission? Forever props to Dang and the mods of course.

Some previous discussions:

A year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374040

3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25048415

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052

[dang → 1000bestlives]

I think once a year is probably about right for a meta fest. Kind of like how carnivals are annual.

There are 29 other things on the front page! If you want to complain about repetition, there are two Roman history articles on the front page right now. That's a lot. (Edit: never mind, one got cut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914993.)

[empathy_m → dang]

Is there a point at which the mods' work can be done by a large language model?

Not because it's any cheaper or anything, just because after many years of doing this eventually it must start to feel stale and there's a burnout risk. Imagine if you leave almost all the work to automation and check in much less frequently. So much time for any other activities.