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by zarvox 5123 days ago
Clay Shirky has studied this extensively and is probably the best resource. "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" [0] is perhaps the best single piece on what you're thinking about.

He offers several design guidelines toward the end of the piece, which I suspect informed the design of HN (and the posting guidelines therein).

Another technique he mentions is that of MetaFilter, which disables their new user page when they feel the effects of scale.

[0] - http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html