The Great Wakka's Journal: Moderation, Please!

Moderation Totals: Redundant=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=2, Overrated=1, Total=5.

I kid you not. Are some comments that ambiguous? And what, exactly, consititues some of these modifiers? Overrated? Does that mean "I don't like you, so I'm going to mod you down?" Or does it mean "People modded you up too much?" This confuses me.

Slashcode Suggestion:
Make it so that moderators must provide (or have the option?) of providing a reason for their moderation, so that the commenter is not left in the dark.

I have seen people reported worse. Some people got their comment with nearly every single moderation possible. Are moderators really moderate?

Hehe

[rendler]

I kid you not. Are some comments that ambiguous? And what, exactly, consititues some of these modifiers? Overrated? Does that mean "I don't like you, so I'm going to mod you down?" Or does it mean "People modded you up too much?" This confuses me.

I have no idea about this but the other day I modded a post 'interesting' and it came out underrated, I guess we both need enlightenment on this little quirkiness with the mod system.

Slashcode Suggestion: Make it so that moderators must provide (or have the option?) of providing a reason for their moderation, so that the commenter is not left in the dark.

That's a pretty good idea it'll stop most moderators from willy nilly modding post without even reading it properly. Although it would take a lot longer for people to use their mod points, which isn't a bad thing if there were more days to use them ;)

I have seen people reported worse. Some people got their comment with nearly every single moderation possible. Are moderators really moderate?

I am ;)

Some of your past moderations have been meta moderated by 9 other Slashdot readers. Here are the exciting results:

"Re:Not to forget the monopoly.. Telstra" from the discussion Broadband In Australia Just Got Slower [slashdot.org] which you moderated as Interesting was voted Fair

For your outstanding moderation, you are granted 1 karma. Thank you for moderating.

Silly moddy.

[fm6]

This mod [slashdot.org], is interesting. I think "overrated" stands for "Oh, you think you're so smart!"