Journal roman_mir's Journal: Fixing /. Troll Moderation Problem 8
On this very site, there are so many troll moderators, I lost count of them.
Here are just a couple of latest examples of this phenomena taking place.
As you can see, there is a problem with this type of moderation, where a legitimate opinion is moderated as a troll but at the same time a comment like that gets various other moderations, like "insightful" or "interesting" or just "underrated".
What is the problem with this picture, what do we really have here? What we have here is a disagreement, which is then expressed by some of the moderators (who do appear to have more moderation points) by moderating comments they just don't like as 'troll', while others find these comments to be at least interesting to respond to and to attempt to moderate up to generate more discussion.
Of-course this is just part of the previous problem that rears its ugly head in this neck of woods.
If I were an operator on this site and I were legitimately interested in fixing this problem (if, of-course I saw it as a problem), I would have fixed it quickly and meaningfully.
1. Allow anybody to moderate any and all articles with a maximum of 2 moderation points. You have to be a signed in user, not just an AC.
2. If a comment receives multiple up and down votes, lock that comment at some average (like 3) and don't let anybody moderate it further. Obviously it's a controversial enough comment to be at least interesting.
3. Get rid of the super moderators - this is pure evil nonsense, they are clearly abusing their power and it's obvious immediately in cases a comment is moderated up and it's possible to read the moderation type (insightful or interesting or underrated) and all of a sudden it is moderated down, but there is no history of how it was moderated down.
4. Allow moderator point exchange. Why not treat moderation points as commodity, have a moderation point exchange, were some users exchange points with others and they could even establish a mini-economy based on this idea.
It's an idea, whether it's worth bothering or not, at least it's looking at the existing problem.
Simpler solution (Score:2)
Don't allow down moderation. Start everyone at 0 (maybe 1 for good karma) and then let them be moderated up. Normal users would browse at +2 or +3 (to avoid real trolls), moderators at 0. That way you'd see all manner of points of view.
Re: (Score:2)
Kuro5hin and Plastic tried that years ago. It didn't work, few too many comments bubbled up from the depths of trolldom.
ROFLMAO (Score:2)
These kinds of complaints were old news 10 years ago. Why you think you're going to get any useful attention on this is a mystery to me.
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5. stop cursing at people (Score:2)
alternatively, you can start your own site. its a lot of work. but its very rewarding.
Re: (Score:1)
I may one day, I believe /. has been a good experiment and allowed to see through many issues on what sites like this face and where many of the problems are.
no time like the present (Score:2)
if you ahve the money and the freedom, there is nothing better you can do with your time than try to start something with your own bare hands. nothing feels quite like it.