shanen's Journal: /. still reeks like the big dog's m0e

I see that I wasn't on the system for 11 months there, but the system has not improved. (I returned for about two weeks in December.) In fact, I notice the moderation system and the actual moderation is still as awful as before, and new observations are that the humor seems much weaker than before, participation seems somewhat lower than before, and the system is still so stupid or buggy as to show last year's posts without any year indication. (The last one is probably an old problem that I never noticed.) As usual, they are promising improvements RSN.

Time to go away for another 11 months? Or maybe 11 years?

Date format is a preference setting

[Vainglorious Coward]

Not that I can disagree with your general assessment, but note that date format is a user configurable setting [slashdot.org]

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[shanen]

Thanks for the reminder. However, as regards the settings, I would note that where /. suffers from feeping creaturitis. It's evidently relatively easy to add new settings upon layers of settings for users to twiddle with, but apparently quite difficult to add real intelligence to the system so that the users wouldn't want to do so much twiddling.

As regards the immoderate moderation, my karma continues to straddle the line between good and excellent. A relatively trivial 'throwaway' comment just got an 'inte