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He should write a book on moderating online communities.

Not joking, we are trying to build a large online community now and I would love to pick his brain on balancing incentives, encouraging curiosity, having equanimity, and all kinds of aspects in “practical sociology”.

I think his in-the-trenches experience would benefit many people trying to build and maintain healthy online communities.

Thanks dang!!

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When someone has developed a remarkable approach that could be considered almost like the textbook guidelines that others could learn from, that's when someone else with meaningful subject interest needs to follow them around with a clipboard until there's enough juicy content for a book, and edit it for publication together.

More likely to disseminate best practices much sooner than waiting for a mission-critical operator to have time to write it themselves.

I second this. I have seen so many thriving online communities fail in short time because the moderator screwed up. The declines of many subreddits are classic examples. Yet, dang has successfully managed this community for years. I would like to learn from him!

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