webhat's Journal: Moderation and Meta Moderation (rant)

I'm a fair Meta Moderator, I try to read the Context all the time, take into account how others have moderated and MM on that basis, even if I don't agree with the comment posted. Today I saw 2 on topic jokes and a posting about an alternative, marked offtopic.

I'd already decided to be extra careful with things marked offtopic, troll or redundant, I never see the need to moderate anything as offtopic, troll or redundant. I also never see the point of up modding an already moderated post, unless the moderation is clearly wrong. I try to avoid modding people in my friends list, as that would be a little unfair, although I do sometimes. I even moderate at -1 AC. Now I'm getting mod points once every 2-4 days.

As it seems many people are modding stupidly I could just save my time and sell my mod points.

I no longer get mod points

[johndiii]

It's been nearly two years. For a while, I M2'ed conscientiously, but that got to be too frustrating, so I turned off the "Willing to Moderate" flag. Your approach is the right one, I think, in regard to Offtopic, Troll, and Redundant, though it can be quite a job to figure out if a post is really redundant. I think that a lot of the really bad moderation is done as Overrated and Underrated, so that it never sees M2 at all.

Re:I no longer get mod points

[webhat]

You have 5 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!

Got mod points again, wanna buy some? ;)

You have 4 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose 'em!

I already spend one modding up a funny post in a Journal, I always like to see journal moderations in my M2 list and like other people to see funny posts anyway. Even if it is just in M2.

Re:I no longer get mod points

[johndiii]

Well, I'm capped these days. I'd spend them on friends, if I had them, particularly anyone posting at 1.