Teknogeek's Journal: Metamoderate based on the posts, not based on your own bias!

I hate people sometimes.

While I was screwing around in metamod.pl, I ran across someone whose sig proclaimed that he always metamods negative moderations as "Unfair".

Hopefully, he was just trolling. HOPEFULLY.

But with his karma bonus, I question that. And it makes me wonder. The whole point of the karma system was to keep people who basically spam Goatse endlessly from gumming up the works. I've modded enough message boards to see it be attempted, and I'm proud to say that I never allowed it to.

Call it censorship if you want, I don't care. Maybe it is. But if so, censorship is a necessary evil...much like government. Necessary at low levels, poisonous at large ones.

And Dixie_Flatline is now on my Foes list.

Um, I know why he said that.

[Elwood P Dowd]

When I'm in metamod, the downmods I see are almost always without merit. Sure, there are the goatse trollers, but that's a tiny percentage of the traffic on /., and it's a tiny percentage of the downmods.

Usually, downmods occur when someone didn't understand a comment, they disagreed with an opinion, or sometimes, just because they wanted to be a dick. About once per story, dittoheads get modded up to +5, while insightful comments get lost at -1. This trend made me decide that:

1) I'll never downmod again.

Re:Um, I know why he said that.

[Teknogeek]

I see what you're saying, and I'm not going to argue that a large chunk percent of the downmods are probably unnecessary, or flat-out stupid.

What got me angry was the blanket condemnation of all downmods. Your perspective, at least, leaves room for valid downmods, rather than his "if you don't like it, ignore it". Hence the basis of my entry.