Comment by palmotea

Comment by palmotea 2 days ago

12 replies

> He has been doing HN moderation work for years already and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you'll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do.

I wonder if there are any other secret moderators.

Raed667 2 days ago

If you reach 160'000 karma you can see the secret mods

  • Full_Clark a day ago

    was really hoping the threshold is 65,535 because I'm much more likely to reach it counting backwards.

  • saagarjha a day ago

    At 1 million you become a secret mod. Or so I hear.

diggan 2 days ago

If you flag, downvote, and/or vouch comments, you're basically already a moderator-lite yourself :)

  • dragonwriter 2 days ago

    Upvoting posts has a moderation-like effect (opposed to that of downvoting).

    • diggan a day ago

      I dunno, I feel like that'd be "curation" rather than "moderation".

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milesrout 2 days ago

There are many, I think? Dang has mentioned other moderators (plural) before, I believe.