Journal morgan_greywolf's Journal: Oh, joy! Moderation abuse! 48
This is an open letter to my friend, the personal troll.
Okay, this is getting old. Someone, who obviously has a couple of sock puppet accounts (and nothing better to do), went and modded a bunch of my posts as trolls today. They must really hate me, because they waited until two of their accounts got mod points, and then blew 8 of their 10 mod points on lil' ol' me.
Probably the same person who's been trolling me for the past couple of weeks.
Whoever you are, if you had some testicular fortitude, you wouldn't hide behind socket puppets and AC trolls. I'm asking you now, as a man (or woman as the case may be), to do the honorable thing and post, not AC, with your real account, right here. Then we can discuss your issue with me, one-on-one via e-mail if you prefer.
I seriously doubt you'll do the honorable thing because you've already shown that you're a coward with no honor.
Used up my 5 points (Score:2)
Did my best to fix the latest abuses.
You just got 7 of my 15 points (Score:2)
These stupid fuckers are going to lose all their mod points so fast. Seems like they aren't getting them anymore, I wonder why? LOL, Slashdot at its best. Dumb punks come in and think they own the place. You fuckstains need to learn to pick your battles.
Bummer (Score:2, Insightful)
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Yeah, but in your case you know who it is. This person flames me as AC and, to my knowledge, hasn't flamed me with his regular account.
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That is the funniest thing I've read on
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More to the point, if you're hassling him, you might as well hassle me too, as I don't see a great amount of difference between our outputs.
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Whatever, granddad.
you don't seem so "snarky"
You just killed the little kitten in my heart.
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Okay, asshole, here's how it works. You keep modding people like Morgan, who are well known and liked by many people who actually have four digit accounts, down. Keep it up, because you WILL have your mod points revoked if you do it long enough. Most of us old timers meta mod ALL THE TIME and eventually, we will screw you out of ever having mod points again. You will not hurt Morgan's karma, because we get more mod points than you ever will. All you will do is screw over your own account and lose all your m
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I'm just a guy with a 4 digit account and plenty of mod points who thinks you're a jerk based on the troll posts you post.
It might help you to know that my original account (which I lost the password for and is set to a mail account I no longer have), is a low-5-digit account (mid-18,000 range. I'll leave it as an exercise to guess which one). And I was posting here before they had accounts -- I just waited for a while before I finally signed up for one. So I've been here about as long as you have, maybe longer, "granddad".
Take a look at what you post. It says troll all over it.
Some of my posts are a bit 'snarky', yes. I tend to be a bit sarcastic, so if you go back and read some
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You may not have noticed but stupid people don't get sarcasm. It can be fun to rub their nose in it in front of other intelligent people as they're the only ones who don't realize its happening.
Its one of the few pleasures in life when dealing with stupid people.
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I myself have given you upmods and downmods, and at times have considered making you a friend due to your insight and a foe due to your uncouth method of saying things, so I'm a pretty neutral observer in all this. I'm just here to drop some information in your lap that you might find useful.
I've had the same thing happen to me, but it went away pretty quickly. If this is a strictly recent event, I wouldn't worry, your karma will probably survive longer than the mod-stalker's interest. If you get beat to
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> been getting this enhanced amount for a few months now, but the fact remains.
I also have had 15 mod points some time ago. I thought it was a bug of some sort, so I've mailed Taco. He replied:
> The system gives a small % of users more points becuase they have a
> history of good moderation. Use them wisely.
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I figured it was something like that. It's probably because I try to remove any agreement/disagreement with posts I'm moderating from my decision making process. It probably helps that I moderate positive more than I mod negative, for the above reason.
Thanks for the information though, it confirms by favored theory about something I've been wondering about.
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Can't honestly say that I do. I have my suspicions, centered around a few individuals who are more lurkers than posters, but if you're talking about either RG or Pudge, I have strong doubts.
If Pudge has moderated any of my comments, my guess would be that those would be relatively low in number. Despite having unlimited mods, he strikes me as being far too judicious in nature to be so, ahem, liberal with his mods.
RG, by nature of having long periods of
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Pudge of course works for slashdot. He has slightly more intellect than a grapefruit in most of his posts, but he is aware that the economy is tanking rapidly and there isn't much demand for emotional third-rate programmers right now. Hence he is careful on how he shows up around here (as much as he is capable of such) and likely would not abuse his moderation privileges for fear of losing his job.
RailGunner likely has had perhaps a t
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What are 'hyper-con' accounts? Are these people with the 'editor' flag?
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What are 'hyper-con' accounts?
Hyper-con refers to the hyper conservatives. Pudge and RailGunner are prime examples. Around here the hyper-cons generally treat slashdot as if it were an extension of the drudge report or townhall.com. The hyper-cons are so conservative that they generally make Pat Buchanan appear to be a semi-reasonable guy.
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Okay, so if we added the term 'hyper-con' to your sig like this:
No two of these terms are synonymous: Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Obama Administration, Hyper-Con
that would make it a false statement. Gotcha. ;)
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Again, do you not know how this game works? I meta moderate three or four times a day. We've been screwing dumb six digit fuckstains like you out of mod points for year. What's my karma, bitch? Excellent. Do you know how many silly fucks have tried to take me down? How many of them have mod points now? We will eat you alive, child. When you go on a mod vendetta against the wrong people, YOU are the one who gets fucked. Consider yourself warned.
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MY problem? Assuming you are the same fucktard, you are talking about gaming the damn mod system, fucking with someone regardless of the quality of their posts. Well, I am here to let you know, fucktards get slapped down. They lose all their mod privileges permanently. I am doing you a service, you dumb fuckstain. Hopefully, you will make the right decision and use your mod points as intended, to promote insightful and interesting posts, and only use them to punish the most egregious of trolls and flamebait
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Ah, look at my posting history and you will see, I've been here since before UIDs were even used, dumbass. Ask anyone who's been here longer than you. Better men than you have tried to modbomb me, so bring it on you fuckstained cuntflap. We will destroy you in metamod and you'll never nod again. You don't understand how this works, I was here before the karma cap. Do you have any idea what my actual, numeric karma is? It's simply not possible to bring my karma below excellent. But please, go ahead and try.
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Here's a thought, how about you just STFU and do whatever it is you're going to do. I've left you a TON of nasty posts to downmod, who's going to challenge that? Go ahead, man, just do it and quit flapping your gums. Note that the cap is 'excellent' not a numeric value. And the limit is to how much you can accumulate. Not how much you have. I accumulated insane amounts of karma before the cap. I've had vindictive twats come after me before, and my karma has never wavered. Perhaps you are right though, so, a
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I am more impervious than you can imagine. You don't know me. You don't know who I'm friends with. Assholes have been coming after me for years, but look at my friends list, and enemies list. Look at my karma. Look at my posting history. You can't do shit. Does it hurt knowing you are powerless to stop me? I hope it burns. You'll lose all your mod points, forever. I'm not saying why, but you'll find out. You've basically announced in public that you'll downmod me without proper cause. Don't imagine for a se
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Cry more, noob. You are in the minority, yet so full of yourself that you can't see the truth: people like me because they like what I have to say. This is a discussion of moderation abuse, and the people posting anonymously here deserve no sympathy, respect, or politeness. They have admitted to cyberstalking and insincere, abusive down-moderation of people I like. The fact that I enjoy tearing them a new one has no bearing on how I act in regular conversations.
But let me make it clear: I still have mod pri
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Nope, sorry. It's part of the 'grumpy old curmudgeon' persona that goes along with my low four digit UID. You'll notice that I only troll on certain subjects, and if called on it, I apologize and engage in actual reasoned dialogue. I have excellent karma because I deserve it.
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And it looks like I took the heat off of Morgan, which was my reason for being such a bastard here. Better the slashdot vigilantes waste their points on me than on him, I can recover easier. Hopefully, whoever it was went overboard on me badly enough to get slapped down in meta mod.
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Yeah, I metamod my own mods, too. You go ahead and mark me as troll all you like, it simply doesn't matter. Look at my karma, I just got mod bombed and it hasn't wavered. Back off of Morgan, though, this is his journal and he can say anything he likes in it. It's not like he's whining in a story or anything.
Some people claim... (Score:2)
I have certainly been the target of hacktacular idiots with moderator points (probably not these [slashdot.org] idiots [slashdot.org], for reasons I discussed here [slashdot.org]). Though my own experiences with Malda do seem to indicate he prefers to be more hands-off, it may be worth a try if someone is really trying to smear you consistently with bad moderations.
Untrolled (Score:2)
If my memory serves, last week I caught one of your comments modded troll. The mod stood out like sore thumb and it was a pleasure to mod it back up.
This was such a blatantly bad mod I had the feeling it was vindictiveness at play so I monitored my mod for about 8-10 hours just for the hell of it. It remained unchanged.
Good luck with this childish nuisance.
Not to put too fine a point on it... (Score:2)
don't let it bring you down, Morgan (Score:2)
it's only mod points burning.
Anyway, friend, you just keep saying what's on your mind. Do not let some little sad twerp with a chip on his shoulder and mod points to burn get under your skin.
Anyway, it all comes out in the meta-mod wash, anyway.
I AM THE TROLL! (Score:2)
IT WAS ME! I DID IT!
But not really! I'm too lazy to pull off that kind of thing, I used up all my trolling on IRC years ago, and I like you!
Sorry to hear that (Score:2)
Sorry to hear it... (Score:2)
Just a quick post to say I'm sorry to hear that someone is abusing their mod points like this. It might well be it's only one account too, I regularly get 15 mod points at a time these days, for whatever reason.
I have posts by friends set up at +1 anyway, so I'll be sure to mod you up if there are any signs of abuse. Assuming your post is clever, but they usually are. :) .max