Lionel Hutts's Journal: Why can't I moderate anymore?

It's been a long time -- two years or more, I think -- since I've had moderator points. I'm not sure why.

My karma has been "excellent" the whole time. I read a couple of times a day, and post once in a while -- usually when I know what I'm talking about. I've only had a few posts modded down, and a reasonable percentage modded up.

I have some fans, I was surprised to discover.

I do have a lot of foes. Many of them probably have few freaks besides me. I figured that the only real consequence of the foes list was to hide your posts from me, and that, if you said something I considered stupid, even once, given the surfeit of things to read, I'd limit myself to your modded-up comments until you said something smart enough to convince me otherwise. Is that considered some sort of abuse? (I mean the use of the foes list, not the 50-word sentence.)

I used to metamod frequently. I don't much anymore. I know I'm supposed to, but didn't think it was really required.

I did read, but not repost (or follow), the infamous trolling guide.

I don't remember any of my moderation being inappropriate -- in my view, of course. I did sometimes simultaneously mod down and make a foe, but I don't see anything wrong with that.

And I'm not a subscriber, and don't plan to be.

I don't particularly care, but I'm a little annoyed at having lost this privelege I once had. Not to sound Kafkaesque, but will I ever get a second chance at whatever it was I did wrong?

me too, until a few days ago

[AssFace]

I used to get moderator points rather a lot. Then I stopped getting them for well over a year.
Just got them again this week with some change they made to the database and the mod points.

I haven't used all of them yet though since it doesn't really matter too much to me either way.