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Surak (18578)

Surak
  surak AT mailblocks DOT com
http://focasmi.org/
Pagan, occultist, redneck, Sysadmin, programmer, writer, Trekker, former BBS SysOp, and 3D CAD and CGI systems expert.

Journal of Surak (18578)

Demonstration of /. Moderation Abuse (PAY ATTENTION, JAMIE!)

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Friday September 19 2003, @09:12AM
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Here is a first-hand demonstration of moderation abuse on Slashdot.

I said something *completely* unpopular. Look at how it got modded. The first point was *insightful* but after that, I got modded down *3* times as "overrated" because some people didn't agree with my viewpoint. They gave me the overrated mod because now they won't be subject to metamod. They didn't mod it troll or flamebait because they knew that it wasn't and that they'd get lambasted in metamod.

Just thought I'd point that out in case y'all thought I was crazy in my earlier JEs about my biggest /. pet peeve -- moderation abuse.


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  • They should get rid of the "Overrated" mod altogether. Ditto for "Underrated."

    Why lot add options that people are writing in like "Faulty Logic" or whatever?
    • Same opinion here, about the use of Overrated/Underrated.
      That is what meta-mod is for these days.

      What Surak posted was either Funny (my guess) or Flamebait. Why is it flamebait? Well, simply because Surak assumes everyone has worked hard for their we

      • I posted a reply [slashdot.org] to surak's comment, which was promptly modded up +1 Interesting and then -1 Overrated? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I think "Overrated" usually translates as "moderator has a vendetta against author, but can't come up with valid mod-down reaso
        • Looks indeed someone has a grudge against Surak. I liked your reply!

          I agree fully with the last comment: Funny should be "renumerated", because that is one reason I come to slashdot. To get a good laugh :-)

          And "Overrated", well, is just Overrated ;-

  • Yep. I've bitched about it too, after I said that metric is not universally superior to English measure.

    My current complaint is the number of moderators that don't know the differences amongst Interesting, Insightful, and Informative.

    For the record, I

  • Every system has its inherit weaknesses, one of the problems that I see is the shear number of posts available for metamodding and the way they are displayed.

    I think that Amazon's "gold box" has a point to it. Maybe metamoderation should display each

  • By adding a karmaless 'agree/disagree' mod, it would be possible to disagree with a post without modding it down. (Yes. In theory, this is alrady possible.) But it would serve as a gauge to see just how popular or unpopular a view is. On the other hand, th
    • By the way, i'd read the post but my take on it was that you were trying for a combination of snarky and funny...

      Snarky? As far as funny goes, yes ... I was being facetious.

      I was also poking fun at the people who are all about class warfare.

      Give it a
  • I skimmed that article, knowing that the moderators would be in full on dipshit mode. Seems you've proven me right. And we all know CT, Jamie, et al. don't give two wet farts about moderation issues. They could have eliminated over/under years ago.

  • That why I hardly ever post to the main page and every once in a while post to the others. Bungi [slashdot.org] seems to have had enough of the crap also, unfortunately for good it seems. I found those posts funny/interesting/amusing/crazy [in a good way], really had a c
  • I knowingly use the overrated and underrated mods.

    Let me explain. My opinions are somewhat conservative, while slashdot has a sizeable chunk of ultra-liberals. I'll often see comments like "Michael Moore is a f****** genius!" and it gets +5 Insightfu
  • Those EVIL moderators! How dare they moderate! It's not like their moderation matters or anything. No! They had their metamods handed to them on a silver platter!

    It disgusts me! We're all poorly moderated because they're a bunch of greedy, good-for-nothin
  • ... but I was afraid I'd be modded down. :-|
  • But your post doesn't really seem insightful or particularly funny to me. So I'd say it was overrated, as it is. IMHO, of course.

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