I'm late to this thread because for some reason I only just noticed it. Thanks for the nice comment! It's fun to hear from someone who is just curious.
I do think of writing about HN, but not a blog post, because I can't think of a good reason. I don't enjoy writing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14431262), at least not that kind of thing. Somehow I maneuvered myself into a job that is basically being a writer...of that kind of thing. Writing because you enjoy it, or were born to do it, is the best reason; failing that, it could be a means to an end. But what end?
I do intend to write about HN in a different way. There are core moderation topics I've been posting about and returning to for years now (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang). I'm inching my way towards distilling those comments into mini-essays, or discrete paragraphs, about the principles of HN: what kind of community we want HN to be and how to get there. I think there's an opportunity for a step change if we become more conscious as a group about what we're trying to be and why.
The "why" is critical because the rules here can seem a bit lame if you think of them only as constraints. Many creative minds are the sort that don't see why they should respect arbitrary constraints. For such people, the way to win them over is to derive the rules from first principles: to show how it's in their interest to follow them because that's the way we get to have, and keep, an interesting community over time. That's what I try to do in moderation comments, at least on good days: not to scold people, but to persuade them.
My intention is to distill all that commentary into a series of posts that can form sort of the case law, or midrash, or zoography, of the core topics around HN community. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I already do that by linking back to previous moderation comments using specific keywords. Some examples:
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There are at least a dozen of these. My idea is to consolidate that material into little essays that interpret, explain, and basically act as hermeneutics to the site guidelines. Then maybe, in the future, I won't have to type out a whole new comment on $topic; I can just link to the canonical explanation. In other words, I intend to write more in order to write less! Other than that, for learnings and patterns about moderating HN, your best bet is to lure me with the right kind of beer. Or just ask a question here.