>Anyone know if the mods are employed/ appointed / community members?
Someone implied that all founders accepted into YC are offered mod privileges although of course many will be too busy to do any moderation.
Also, I sort of got the impression that only founders of YC-backed companies and YC employees are mods.
ADDED. When reading with SHOWDEAD set, in order to get an accurate impression of moderation frequency, please keep in mind that if someone posts the same text twice as a comment, one of the comments is automatically killed (and in fact that is what happened to a dupe of the comment I am replying to). The autokilled dupe shows up as a dead comment.
Someone implied that all founders accepted into YC are offered mod privileges although of course many will be too busy to do any moderation.
Also, I sort of got the impression that only founders of YC-backed companies and YC employees are mods.
ADDED. When reading with SHOWDEAD set, in order to get an accurate impression of moderation frequency, please keep in mind that if someone posts the same text twice as a comment, one of the comments is automatically killed (and in fact that is what happened to a dupe of the comment I am replying to). The autokilled dupe shows up as a dead comment.