singleantler's Journal: Quick return of the mod points

I've got moderator points again. This is odd, as my Karma is 'Good' rather than higher, and I had some late last week. I presume this is the standard random-points-to-members and I just happen to have been randomly picked twice in quick succession. Alternatively it could be that people have been agreeing with me in meta-moderation and that's bumped me up the list for some points again.

I always find having mod points changes the way I read Slashdot a bit. Normally I often see posts I think could do with a bit of a boost, but when I have points they all disappear. Then there's ones I like, but are already on 3 or 4. There's plenty of posts around that are up on 5 and I feel don't really deserve to be quite that high, but I don't want to go around modding down comments which are pretty good when I could be finding ones that need raising.

Recently when I have points I've been trying to remember to look at the stories in the sub-categories that never make it to the front page. Often a bit of quick modding in those makes more difference than concentrating on the stories everyone is looking at, including those with points as well. I feel like I ought to make an effort with the moderation, just because there seems to be a lot of quite mediocre comments getting high scores at the moment so I'd like to feel a bit of prodding on other comments helps sort things out a bit.