moncyb's Journal: Slashtrolls must die!

The subject line doesn't really mean anything. I just like the way it sounds. An entry for some misc things I thought I should mention.[1] MsGeek: you have replies in your journal turned off, so I replied here (further down).

For those of you who are hiding under a rock, Master Knox has published the images for the Slashdot Photo Contest. Tet was kind enough to make a thumbnail sheet. May the Great Internet Goddess have mercy on their bandwidth. Inspired by the amazing photos (they have some hot ones in there!), Bethanie asks the eternal question "What Sexy Is."

Ms Geek has become discouraged by the moderators on crack. Don't worry love, you're not the only one. In fact, you get lots of upmods, so be happy. Join us in the glorious land of Journals, and the trolls will have a more difficult time finding you.

As for the posts you mentioned, technically the offtopic modded post was offtopic[2], and if you know FAQNatzis like I do, they like to arbitrarily punish people in the worst way. The stupid bloke was probably saying to himself "They should delete the message, block her account, and kick her off her ISP! In fact, all the posts on this entire site are offtopic! I'll mod them all! Damn! Out of mod points...guess I'll have to kick some puppies for playing in my front yard." That whole thread was marked with OT, troll, and flamebait mods.

As for the flamebait post, was proably some luser who's girlfriend couldn't sing a tune to save her live, and his copy of Autotune was the only reason she goes out with him. ;-) I don't think anyone is out to get you specifically--if those are the only ones, I didn't see any others. Just wait until someone modbombs you with all 5 of their mod point across a wide variety of discussions including JEs.[3] That's when you know you've pissed someone off! Try it sometime, you may like it. :-)

BTW MsGeek, I love the subject line: "Autotune must die." Classic. You don't mind if I use it do you? I hope not. It could be a new trend.

[1] Apologies to Surak if this seems too much like his weekly recap.

[2] ...but is anything really offtopic?

[3] Happened to me once. (or was it twice?)

moderators.....

[Pharmboy]

this is the main reason I metamoderate. I find that I tend to agree 95% of the time with UP mods, but disagree with downmods about 50% of the time. Eventually, if the mods who are constantly modding stuff they disagree with down get metamoderated enough, they lose moderation privies. Yea, its a long road.

Part of this is my belief that moderation should be used mainly for UP only, and only modding down stuff that is truly offtopic (and yes, the FAQ tends to agree with me on that point). Offtopic to ME i

Re:moderators.....

[moncyb]

First off, I doubt the editors would have to resort to using over/underrated mods to get around the system. Don't they administer the system too? They can easily just make up accounts. They can program the system so their mods don't get metamoderated. They can make up whole new moderation types if they want.[1] If you really think the editors are the problem, then your only cause of action is creating a forum on your own site (or joining another). Generally, if the people who run the site screw with it, the

Re:moderators.....

[Pharmboy]

First off, I doubt the editors would have to resort to using over/underrated mods to get around the system.

Didn't mean to imply that, i was refering to abuse of under/over in general. Abuse by editors would surely be immune to meta, and I would doubt it is rampant anyway.

As for the "conservative"/"liberal" thing, I don't see it. I have to wonder if you are biased here.

Well, yea, I'm very biased :D But I can still be objective enough to see things without the rose colored glasses. There is bias in

The best is

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getting modded offtopic in your own journal.