[intopieces]

HackerNews is a limited-focus link aggregation and comment platform. It doesn't require the kind of moderation that larger scale, broad-focus social media platforms do.

I don't envy the work that Dan and Scott have to do in the slightest, but I don't think they'll end up with PTSD from it. At least, that's what I gathered when I read "The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News"[0], especially this description of it: "Pressed to describe Hacker News, they do so by means of extravagant, sometimes tender metaphors: the site is a “social ecosystem,” a “hall of mirrors,” a “public park or garden,” a “fractal tree."

[0]http://archive.is/bbzan

[twblalock]

So you think the only ethical sites are the ones that operate a small scale?

[intopieces]

I can't say for sure, since I don't know every site. But I would posit that ethical operation is inversely correlated with user base size.