Steve Cowan's Journal: Did I mod this wrong?

I moderated this comment "redundant".

I did it because of this comment in the same article.

Unfortunately in M2 it was said that my moderation was unfair.

Looked to me like the poster accidentally posted twice -- once as html and the other as pure text.

Some people think that it is unfair to the poster to moderate something this way because it was just an accident, and a negative mod will impact the user's karma. But moderation is not a reward/punishment system, it's just a way of scoring comments. That comment was redundant in the most literal way. I modded it down so that it wouldn't spawn a new thread of responses. Kudos to the author for sharing an in-depth solution, but nobody needs to read it twice. FWIW if I remember correctly, I also modded his original comment up.