Rick the Red's Journal: Moderation

I have not had mod points in ages. I think I may know why (or maybe I'm just paranoid). Slashdot says "Regular Meta Moderators are more likely to get mod points." I mm every time they ask, and I still don't get mod points. Well, today I negatively meta-moderated a "troll" moderation that looked awfully strange. When I read the comment in context it appears it was modded "troll" by a slashbot simply because it was critical of Slashdot itself. We all know criticizing Slashdot is not allowed, and such posts get modded "troll" so fast it has to be a bot. We know a moderator's karma is affected by meta-moderation, so what's to stop them from reversing that and bitchslapping our mod points if we give a bot negative meta-moderation? If they bitchslapped our karma for it, we'd notice, but if this "feature" only denies us mod points how can we prove it?

Thoughts?

Meta-reverse-slap...

[Allen Zadr]

I doubt it.

Being there doesn't seem to be any 'secret' code in Slashdot (it's open source afterall). And even the utilities are available.

Of course anything is possible, it just seems a lot of effort.
Then again, any conspiracy - by definition- takes a lot of effort.

Try eating more veggies

[MarkusQ]

Over the years I have had many theories, based on passing patterns. Some times I get mod points every four days or so. Other times I can go months without. There are only three theories that still fit all my accumulated data:

• There is a bug in the random number generator
• I get more mod points when I'm eating right
• It has something to do with the southern tropical depression (El Niño), though the mapping function is far too complex for me to grok.

Of course, the first and last are beyond my presen