[unixhero]

You've contributed so much to the Internet. Thank you.

[cmdrtaco]

Thanks!

[Angostura]

The moderation and meta-moderation system was a thing of elegant beauty.

[mixmax]

I'm till flabbergasted that noone stole it, it worked so well.

[DANmode]

Did it work well for retaining good discussion and a community?

...or for making money?

[Angostura]

Good discussion and community.

[cykros]

Technically soylent news did, but then, they also used the whole codebase and just changed the site red.

[jacquesm]

I wonder if it would work for HN.

[throwawaaarrgh]

It would work, the mods just don't like it

[sltkr]

Any source on that?

I would guess it's more likely that the Slashdot moderation system is too hard to implement. It also requires a lot of finetuning (like how to determine how many moderation points to dole out to users based on their karma and activity). The Hacker News developers seem to prefer to keep things simple, so they might reject Slashdot-style moderation for being too complicated, but that doesn't mean they don't like it in principle.