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Journal by roman_mir on Saturday December 01, 2012 @05:19PM

Another day on /., another batch of troll moderators perpetrating a coordinated (or an uncoordinated) moderation attack as has been the case for a few months now. One thing is for sure, they don't forget to go back to comments made days ago and moderate them down religiously, whatever they are. It is especially effective in case when the story is no longer on the front page (but also it doesn't matter much I suppose either, nobody is really reading any longer at that moment in time) The comments that are moderated somewhat above the -1 score will be moderated down by subsequent moderators, who will also come over to the page to get rid of any positive scores. Often the moderations happen in batches, which is easy to see, since moderations of multiple comments happen within a span of a couple of minutes. Very often the comments are left with moderation: '-1 Insightful' or '-1 Informative' or '-1 Interesting'.

The comments are mostly moderated Troll, sometimes Flamebait, sometimes Offtopic and sometimes simply Overrated.

including comments in my journal
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3284211&cid=42150003

Clearly the intent behind the moderation is to silence the opinion, not for any other purpose, since moderating past commentary this way does not have any role in any current discussion, so the reason to moderate comments in stories that nobody is reading for a few days is to ensure that in the future only a limited number of comments can be made from the account (2 comments per 24 hours is the maximum that can be made when the 'karma' score is minimal.)

The attack is obviously personal in nature, since the same exact thing is happening in my second account and the responses that are left on my comments after the moderation by various ACs imply that this is done to ensure that the voice of the opposition to their ideology is silenced.

Of-course not every comment there is at the bottom of the score pyramid, however the moderations that push the comments down come after the discussions are over, a couple of days after nobody else is reading the threads, which simply shows the indiscriminate nature of the attack.

Clearly there are people who cannot argue against my type of message but they surely do not want to have my message around to create an echo chamber that prevents any sort of a real discussion.

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if you would read a little, you would know why... (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

slashdot has set definitions for "troll", "flamebait", "offtopic", and "overrated". when you insist on injecting [slashdot.org] your [slashdot.org] religion [slashdot.org] into a [slashdot.org] discussion on [slashdot.org] wikileaks [slashdot.org], you are being offtopic (at the very least, and more likely trolling or flame-baiting).
so stop trying to claim that there is some vast socialist conspiracy against you. hell, you had other comments in the same discussion moderated up until you wandered far, far, far, offtopic and were subsequently hit for doing so. you got what you had coming to

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