Hacker news is analogous to a single subreddit. Many subreddits do have this level of interaction with the "mods" of the subreddit. While I am no longer a reddit user, I recognize that while supporting the long tail by having subreddits and promoting diversity, they have a massively difficult time communicating and pleasing their users.

Happy to take the compliment, but Reddit is two orders of magnitude bigger than we are. That's several layers of 'qualitatively different' away, so the comparison isn't fair. We're in awe of what they have to deal with. I can't imagine it.