Fux the Penguin's Journal: Moderation

This is not a troll in any way.

I was wondering about the effect of Funny mods coupled with Troll, Overrated, and Flamebait mods. Now, you don't get any karma for Funny moderations (check the FAQ...it's there) but you do lose karma for Troll, Overrated, etc. Now, ordinarily, you can't lose any more than 2 karma points for a single post. You start at 1, get modded down twice, and that's that. If you use a +1 bonus, it gets removed after two downmods and no longer affects your karma (it's true, check the FAQ).

So, what happens if you start at 1, get modded +5 Funny (net +4), and then get moderated down to -1 Troll or something (oddly enough, this has even happened to someone who only posts informative and insightful posts like me!). Do you still only lose 2 points? I mean your karma gain/loss on a post is determined by the individual moderations, not by the net change. If it was just the net change that matter, then Funny mods would still help you, so obviously it's done on a per-moderation basis. Heck, it happens pretty often with my posts where they bounce around between Funny and Troll, so that seems to me that you could lose an unlimited amount of karma off a post. Just wondering.

welll

[mekkab]

I'd have to actually read slashcode (and that goes against my religious principals) but knowing that this is fucking slashdot, I'd assume that you get -5. Fuxx0rz.