RobertB-DC's Journal: A point a day, that's all they want

I have absolutely no time, and 5 more mod points. It's been every three or four days since the start of 2005! I'll do my best, but they expire tomorrow, so help me out or else I'll go blow them in the Politics section. :o

Update: Good thing I blew 3 points yesterday on pseudo-random posts, because today they're gone. We'll see by next Monday whether my failure to use all my mod points leads to their being revoked. If not, we'll play again soon!

Further update: It's Monday, and I have 5 more mod points (they expire tomorrow, which means I actually "got" them on Sunday). Guess that means I'm still in the good (?) graces of the Slashcode. I'm going to follow some suggestions in the replies to this posting...

Another day, another point: It's Monday again, and 5 more mod points. I blew four steering the Linux Robots article towards embedded devices, and #5 went to a redundant AC (I wimped out and used "Overrated" whining about the inaccurate Slashdot summary text (now corrected) about Ice on Mars. See you next week!

I think maybe you're doing it "wrong"?

[djh101010]

Maybe I'm just a lazy, un-worthy moderator, but the way I've been doing it, is I wait for an interesting new topic to show up as a preview (I subscribe so I see them early). Once it goes live, I'll burn the 5 mod points in the first 50 or so posts to that thread. With a fresh enough topic, it's early enough to maybe shape the discussion by bringing up useful statements. I rarely will waste a mod point slapping someone down; there seem to be enough mods out there that are free with the "flamebait" and "of

Re:I think maybe you're doing it "wrong"?

[RobertB-DC]

I'm a subscriber too, so I like your idea. If I see a subject I'm interested in today, I'll try to steer the discussion in favor of my evil hidden agenda! w00t!

Re:I think maybe you're doing it "wrong"?

[djh101010]

Well, it's not so much about "evil hidden agenda" (there is no Cabal, remember?), as "what makes slashdot more slashdotty".

On a side note, I just metamoderated, and one of the posts was complaining about the people complaining about redundant responses to duped articles. It was moderated redundant. How could I not rate the moderation as "fair"?

Re:I think maybe you're doing it "wrong"?

[RobertB-DC]

Speaking of redundant moderation! I just got an email from the 'dot:

Some of your past moderations have been meta-moderated by other

Slashdot readers. Here are the exciting results:

- "oh really...?" from the discussion
which you moderated as
"Redundant" was voted Unfair.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138739&cid=116 10390 [slashdot.org]

Summary of your recent moderation: 95% Fair

Thank you for moderating.

We'll see if this affects my moderating ability.

complain, complain

[artifex2004]

Some of us have had to leave our homes [slashdot.org] in order to get mod points again.

And with the Firefox/Slashdot render issues requiring us to refresh 1/3 of the pages we viist, we're still at a disadvantage.

Just kidding. I usually either spend my points on posts to new article, especially if I think the conversation is going astray, or I look at my friends list and start going down the line. Oh, yes, and I've been known to look at the people who hate me, too :)

Anyway, that's why you'll see journal responses modded