daveo0331's Journal: Moderation

Grammar nazi time... "expires" shouldn't change to "expire" when you get down to 1 mod point. The subject of "expires" is "access," and the correct word is "expires" no matter how many points you have.

This is the text you see on the side of your browser window when you get mod points:

You have moderator access and 1 point (expire on 2004-01-26). Welcome to those of you just joining: please read the moderator guidelines for instructions.
  You can't post & moderate the same discussion.
  Concentrate on promoting more than demoting.
  Browse at -1 to keep an eye out for abuses.
  Mail the admin URLs showing abuse (the cid link please!).

Yes

[Morosoph]

But what to moderate? After modding up a couple of front page posts, I've taken to modding up* friends and aquantances in journals. Part of me thinks of poor newbies who need a boost to better karma; is modding up friends morally right? But then, does it really matter?

*Okay, only once so far. This is my first ever modding session... 2 points left!

Re:Yes

[daveo0331]

There are definitely people that mod their friends up. As Taco points out in his journal [slashdot.org], some people mod themselves up:

But context is tricky. There are facts that are not available to the meta moderator that might influence their decision. The most obvious fact is what the moderator did with their other 4 mod points. What about when a moderator uses all 5 mod points on a single user? What if they make a habit of it? I've found accounts where they've used 10-15 mod points on a single other user... every

Re:Yes

[Morosoph]

I've only modded up posts that deserve it, but would have been missed, so I'm not too fussed. My friends tend to be just that because I like their posts/journals anyway!

Whatever you do, don't waste mod points moderating people

down in journals. I've seen it done (sometimes to ACs).

I agree. Look here [slashdot.org] (follow-up [slashdot.org]).

I'll try to look further afield in future, I think. Maybe I'll ration myself to one friendly mod per session :-) I'm not keen on downmodding, although I occasionally do it on K5 [kuro5hin.org], mostly becaus

be patient

[js7a]

Rob and Jamie are currently giving moderation a major overhaul with some amazing troll-defeating bells and whistles to appear this spring. You heard it here first.

Anyway, in 2.2.6 the singular is hardcoded:

[% IF mod_flag %]
<P>You're a moderator with [% points %] points[% IF points && lastgranted %] (expire after [% lastgranted %])[% END %]. Please read the
<A HREF="[% constants.rootdir %]/moderation.shtml">Moderator Guidelines</A>
before you do any moderation.<BR><P>