Artifex's Journal: wow, becoming a newbie again here sucks

As some of you know, I started another account here at Slashdot because I haven't had mod points in a very long time, probably a year or so, and wanted to see whether I could build up another account.

I must say, being a newbie here sucks, these days. Now that everyone seems to be reading at +2 or better, it's really hard to get people to reply to anything, much less vote on it. I know, I haven't made any stellar insights in that account (or this one, either, actually), but still, I figured someone would have something to say about some of those.

Ah, well. Reply if you feel like it. Right now I'm testing the rumor that adding a journal puts some of us old-timers with perfect karma and "too many posts" back in the running for mod points. Heh.

Re:don't try to be witty, game it

[the_mad_poster]

This is certainly true, I just wanted to add a caveat: if you post early in stories and have any enemies with mod points, the reversal will work pretty much as well as the original up mods. You go blazing up to +4 or +5, but then some chucklehead comes along and decides to rip you down with troll mods or overrateds. Since a lot of mods have a bad habit of following the previous moderations, this can send you down to 0 or -1 again pretty quick.