Journal wadiwood's Journal: to the tune of "Grand old Duke of York"
The moderators of slashdot had ten thousand mod-points. They modded posts up to 5 and then they modded them back down again.
At least that seems to be what happened to this post about NZ. People couldn't decide whether it was insightful or flamebait, and settled for declaring it over-rated. Certainly if a post gets modded up to 5 (or 4) and then back down again - that's over done.
Sadly, I think some of the modding was done by people who imagined that Kiwis would be offended by the post, or were offended by the expressed implications of being on the leading edge. There were no responses you'd expect for flamebait, most of the discussion ended up being about Rugby Union being used to identify geographic regions of NZ.
Trouble is that giving Mods to the people leaves the system open to popularity contests and rewards ignorance. I really would like a rating for "ignorant", I so often see these as "insightful" because they express an opinion so far from the truth that some moderators mistake them for having new knowledge on the subject.
At least that seems to be what happened to this post about NZ. People couldn't decide whether it was insightful or flamebait, and settled for declaring it over-rated. Certainly if a post gets modded up to 5 (or 4) and then back down again - that's over done.
Sadly, I think some of the modding was done by people who imagined that Kiwis would be offended by the post, or were offended by the expressed implications of being on the leading edge. There were no responses you'd expect for flamebait, most of the discussion ended up being about Rugby Union being used to identify geographic regions of NZ.
Trouble is that giving Mods to the people leaves the system open to popularity contests and rewards ignorance. I really would like a rating for "ignorant", I so often see these as "insightful" because they express an opinion so far from the truth that some moderators mistake them for having new knowledge on the subject.
