From: Mike H. <mi...@pl...> - 2008-06-20 11:33:16
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This is something that has been bugging me for many years now. I have many comments on Slashdot that have been modded up, and then modded down again using "overrated" for no reason. The last post that this happened to simply quoted a part of the article that apparently offended the groupthink. What is the point of these overrated mods? The only time I've ever seen overrated being used, it's by abusive moderators who know a post is not trolling or flamebait, but don't like it for personal reasons. The way it doesn't leave any trace is doubly appealing for these people. Also, IIUC overrated mods are not meta-moderated. How comes? I don't think slashdot would be any poorer if it were simply scrapped. Thoughts? |
From: Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...> - 2008-06-20 12:50:52
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Mike Hearn <> wrote: > I don't think slashdot would be any poorer if it were simply scrapped. > Thoughts? I agree. "Overrated" is metamoderation done in moderation. I wouldn't mind changing it to a -0 "Disagree" so that moderators (who cannot reply lest their moderations be undone) can still "comment" in this way. If they want to burn a mod point, let them go ahead. But it shouldn't affect the post's score. The expanded view of moderations on the post would still show how many disagreements there were, though. Tim -- Tim Larson AMT2 Unix Systems Administrator InterCall, a division of West Corporation Eschew obfuscation! |
From: W. S. L. I. <sc...@gu...> - 2008-06-20 13:28:57
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Isn't that still meta? -- W. Scott Lockwood III <sc...@gu...> LRSE Hosting On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:50 -0500, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: > Mike Hearn <> wrote: > > I don't think slashdot would be any poorer if it were simply scrapped. > > Thoughts? > > I agree. "Overrated" is metamoderation done in moderation. I wouldn't mind > changing it to a -0 "Disagree" so that moderators (who cannot reply lest > their moderations be undone) can still "comment" in this way. If they want > to burn a mod point, let them go ahead. But it shouldn't affect the post's > score. The expanded view of moderations on the post would still show how > many disagreements there were, though. > > Tim > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ Slashcode-general mailing list Sla...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/slashcode-general |
From: Larson, T. E. <TEL...@we...> - 2008-06-20 13:41:06
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W. Scott Lockwood III <> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 07:50 -0500, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: >> I >> wouldn't mind >> changing it to a -0 "Disagree" so that moderators (who cannot reply >> lest >> their moderations be undone) can still "comment" in this way. If >> they want >> to burn a mod point, let them go ahead. But it shouldn't affect the >> post's >> score. The expanded view of moderations on the post would still show >> how >> many disagreements there were, though. > > Isn't that still meta? Yes, but if it doesn't affect anything, who cares? I don't particularly agree with the limitation that someone cannot both mod and comment in the same story. (As long as you can't mod your OWN posts, other than the high karma posting bonus, I don't see the point.) If that restriction were lifted, there would be no need for Agree/Disagree mods at all. Tim -- Tim Larson AMT2 Unix Systems Administrator InterCall, a division of West Corporation Eschew obfuscation! |
From: W. S. L. I. <sc...@gu...> - 2008-06-20 13:42:58
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Or better yet, do what Scoop does - allow people to SEE who've moderated. There's nothing like bright light for accountability. -- W. Scott Lockwood III <sc...@gu...> LRSE Hosting On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 08:40 -0500, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: > Yes, but if it doesn't affect anything, who cares? I don't > particularly > agree with the limitation that someone cannot both mod and comment in > the > same story. (As long as you can't mod your OWN posts, other than the > high > karma posting bonus, I don't see the point.) If that restriction were > lifted, there would be no need for Agree/Disagree mods at all. |
From: Jamie M. <ja...@mc...> - 2008-06-21 16:19:29
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sc...@gu... (W. Scott Lockwood III) writes: > Or better yet, do what Scoop does - allow people to SEE who've > moderated. There's nothing like bright light for accountability. Slash is open source :) You're all welcome to set the modreasons table however you want on your own Slash sites, or to emit the modCommentLog for nonadmins so everyone can see what moderation has been done. Commentary about Slashdot's "groupthink" is off-topic for this mailing list, though. -- Jamie McCarthy http://mccarthy.vg/ ja...@mc... |