Journal nmb3000's Journal: Slashdot Moderation at Work 4
Don't bother with the journal much, but thought this was worth noting.
I love the Slashdot crowd's perdictable nature. I posted this comment about 30 hours ago knowing very well that it's score would bounce around some, and would probably come to rest either at 1 or 0. I had no idea how much it would really move.
Right now it's at +2, Funny without a karma bonus, however it's not been an easy ride having been at both +4 and -1 two different times each. I decided to watch it as close as I could for a while and from what I was able to tell, it's moderation went about like this:
1 (Initial posting)
2 (+1 Funny)
3 (+1 Funny)
4 (+1 Funny)
3 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
2 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
1 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
0 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
-1 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
0 (+1 Funny)
1 (+1 Funny)
2 (+1 Funny)
3 (+1 Funny)
4 (+1 Funny)
3 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
2 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
1 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
0 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
-1 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
0 (-1 Overrated/Troll)
1 (+1 Funny)
2 (+1 Funny) (current)
It's bounced around a fair bit and based on the age of the article I bet it won't move much more. What I thought was interesting was that in the course of all this 21 mod points have been spent just to juggle a sarcastic comment about Bush around.
Anyway, I just found it interesting.
It's a good comment. (Score:2)
I've had comments go like this, too. It's funny to watch. Usually they bounce between "Funny" and "Troll" or "Flamebait", proving that one man's +1 Funny is another man's -1 Troll.
Congratulations... (Score:2)
(yes, it's that dumb. +14 Funny -11 Overrated is -11 Karma total.)
Re:Congratulations... (Score:2)
I must have enough to burn though because I'm still at "excellent". Do you know what the numeric equivalence is for the different levels? What do they cap karma at now? I know they switched some stuff around when they moved from numeric to the label system, but I'm not familiar with what they did exactly.
Re:Congratulations... (Score:2)
For a small clarification: Bush wasn't responsible for Tsunami, but for the hurricanes and New Orleans flood (more emission, glasshouse effect), and he wasn't responsible for 9/11 either - Carter and Reagan were. Cancer - well, certainly lung cancer due to increased smoking (more stress in life), and as for the Hot Coffee mod, you're confusing Good and Evil. Bush administration is responsible for prosecutin