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We've been throwing ideas around for that, but it would be nice to find a format that is a little better-fitting for HN than straight AMAs. We had a mini-discussion about this recently. Let me see if I can find the link...

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9945111

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Two ideas. 1. Maybe use something like a question pool. User submit questions, and are allowed to upvote or flag existing ones, all while using HNs algorithm (probably modified slightly) to sort the questions. Then the interviewee responses to the top rated ones. 2. Set it up as an affiliated site (ie. Hacker Interviews). That way if it bombs it will likely have a smaller negative impact on HN.

Just as a reminder, idea #1 is basically what Slashdot has done for ages -- seems to work for them.

Or just have someone heavily moderate the AMAs?

I am not sure how HN does it here but I assume they have a few

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