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"People could attempt to replicate something close to his methodology, guidelines and levels of engagement"

I wonder how close are we to getting an AI to do this kind of work? Pretty far I would guess?

Managing a community requires the uncountable efforts of the human soul. As of the current date, large language models do not possess one.

That's rather eloquently romantic, but doesn't actually seem to mean anything beyond "it requires some ineffable quality of vague goodness that just FEELS right to me, I know it when I see it."

What can be done besides "emotional feedback subjective gut check on how it makes me feel" when we propose to analyze the scenario?

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