AmiMoJo's Journal: Textbook example of moderation abuse. Slashdot needs to fix this.

Original post raising concerns about poor moderation shutting down debate on Slashdot. Modded troll, of course.

Okian Warrior replies and is within minutes at +5.

Follow up is also modded troll.

This is one of the clearest examples yet of the moderation system being abused. Unwarranted troll mods, and very obvious sock-puppet/brigading of Okian Warrior's response. The result is that Okian's theory is disproved by the same people who moderated the thread.

Slashdot used to be about debate and free discussion of issues. Unfortunately the moderation system is being abused and little action is being taken to prevent it. It seems that the Slashdot staff have to manually intervene and have little time to do so, and even when they do it is trivial to create new sock puppet accounts.