I recall pg initiating a discussion highlighting the declining quality (S/N) of comments at HN, and struggling to find a scalable approach of tackling it. Afaik

I recall pg initiating a discussion highlighting the declining quality (S/N) of comments at HN, and struggling to find a scalable approach of tackling it. Afaik slashdots approach has been published and works for them, so maybe that would be a good place to start looking? See http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml and http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml