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I am wondering how Dang manages a continuous stream of posts. Does he monitor it full-time?

I'm not the only mod (just the only one who posts publicly) - but even if you put all of us together, we can't monitor everything that gets posted here. We rely on users to bring things to our attention.

Does that answer your question?

Thank you for your response. I still believe that this is a great forum because the moderators manage it effectively. I hope you and your team keep enhancing HN.

Chiming in: flags, and in egregious / urgent cases, email to hn@ycombinator.com.

That email backlog is apparently expanding, ~12--24 hours per dang's recent comments, so both expect and respect that.

For general-purpose abuse, I prefer simply flagging.

To disable flags on an article I'll email mods, that occurs fairly rarely.

If an account seems to be flagrantly violating HN Guidelines, and has had previous warnings (you can use the replies endpoint to find those: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42571073>), I'll drop an email as well.

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