James A. A. Joyce's Journal: When will I be eligible for M1?

If I may direct your attention to this part of the Slashdot FAQ, regarding moderation.

It outlines five prerequisites for moderator access:

• You have to be logged in
• You have to read regularly, but not obsessively (the front page doesn't count)
• Your account must be fairly 'old' (the most recent few thousand accounts can't moderate)
• 'Willing to Serve' must be set in your preferences
• 'Positive' or better karma

I satisfy, as far as I can tell, all of those conditions except perhaps the second listed above. I do read Slashdot regularly, but I read it perhaps a little too regularly. I routinely reload my user page a good two or three dozen times a day. I think that would be my stumbling block. Or do I just need to wait a while more?

Could some users with UIDs in the 600,000-700,000 range inform me as to whether or not how many times they've gotten M1/M2? I need some data to seek my teeth into.

M1 is mostly random

[buffer-overflowed]

M2 is based on your account ID.

I've had both, they come in time. The older the account generally the more likely you seem to get mod points.

Bleh

[Feztaa]

Well, I've M1'd a few times. It doesn't happen often, though. On the other hand, I M2 at least 5 times a week. I don't know what it is, but slashdot really likes my metamoderations, I guess.

when you are within 75% of slashdot's oldest users

[rkz]

nt

Re:I'm curious as to where you got that figure.

[rkz]

CmdrTaco [slashdot.org]

I get to

[Omkar]

M1, M2 pretty often.