On Trolls, Natalie Portman, and Saving Slashdot

8ballcane asks: "Reading Slashdot regularly, I am sure we have all been privy to the increasing trend of pretrified, grits and yes, Natalie Portman posts, as seen in this story . Moderators have helped in the curtailment of this to some degree, but the sheer amount of these postings has gotten too large. I think that there are many highly intelligent people who read and look at slashdot daily, so I thought this would be the best place to discuss such a problem. The question of the day: How can Slashdot deal with the large amount of off topic and malicious posts from people intent on disrupting all dialog on the subject at hand? " This has always been a problem as Slashdot has grown over the years, and moderation has helped but not solved the problems. What else can we do to help improve the post quality here on Slashdot?