Let’s hope human cloning will arrive within dang‘s lifetime.

A sort of Dang Acevedo? :)

Meh, fine-tune a LLM on dang's comments and call it a day. Ship early and ship often, adjustments can be made as we discover it doing the wrong thing.

Funny, but taking it seriously: it should be trained on dang's moderation actions, not comments.

Most of dang's comments (that I've came across at least) are moderation actions, like telling people how they're not following the guidelines and so on. But yeah, also the actual backend moderation actions should obviously be included in the training set.

Excellent at producing a specific outcome (optimizing for certain variables) - whether that specific goal of an outcome is anywhere near optimal in a comprehensive sense is another matter entirely.

Excellent at allowing the same 10 guys (and their alts) to dominate almost every discussion. For truly serious topics, this place isn't all that different. Manipulation is a powerful weapon.

I've never seen this to be the case. Could you elaborate on how dang does this?

Metafilter also seems to work fine. Just charge money for each account creation, eventually the repeat trolls will get tired of paying over and over again.