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that I have read are obviously used for kharma whoring, and I also notice more posts that are unfairly modded redundant.
As for the redundant point, say you make an interesting post replying to the story and yours is the 20th or so post to do so. However posts that are in reply to other posts are invariably made to first dozen or so "root" posts as to be seen higher in the page. If someone takes your point and posts it to an earilier thread, many moderators will moderate your post as being redundant since they read it second, even though yours may have been first by hours. Conclusion: check the timedate stamp before moderating redundant.
In regaurds to the first point, the problem of feeding kharma whore trolls is becoming a bigger problem. A kharm whore troll (KWT) is a poster who will use various techniques to get a post highly moderated (ie. steal posts, post early, post high in the thread, which is what the first example did, steal a post from the yahoo board). Then they will go out trolling and get many -1 scores.
rkz is one that I have most recently noticed. To figure out KWT's check their user page out. If you notice a lot of -1's, then watch out. It doesn't mean that they are a KWT, but it's the leading indicator.
Secondly, look at their friends list. For example look at how many of rkz's friends have 'troll' in their username, or other likely troll names. I've figured that trolls band together in packs to spend mod points on each other.
Thus before you spend mod points, do a quick look at who you are modding, who they associate with and remember don't feed the trolls. Help slashdot get its signal to noise ratio back.
Lastly, M2'ing smartly can help this problem. I know it's hard to say wether a post wasn't insightful, informative or funny, or any of the mod up's. But remember if someone is clearly modding up a troll, they are perpetuating the problem.
As for the redundant point, say you make an interesting post replying to the story and yours is the 20th or so post to do so. However posts that are in reply to other posts are invariably made to first dozen or so "root" posts as to be seen higher in the page. If someone takes your point and posts it to an earilier thread, many moderators will moderate your post as being redundant since they read it second, even though yours may have been first by hours. Conclusion: check the timedate stamp before moderating redundant.
In regaurds to the first point, the problem of feeding kharma whore trolls is becoming a bigger problem. A kharm whore troll (KWT) is a poster who will use various techniques to get a post highly moderated (ie. steal posts, post early, post high in the thread, which is what the first example did, steal a post from the yahoo board). Then they will go out trolling and get many -1 scores.
rkz is one that I have most recently noticed. To figure out KWT's check their user page out. If you notice a lot of -1's, then watch out. It doesn't mean that they are a KWT, but it's the leading indicator.
Secondly, look at their friends list. For example look at how many of rkz's friends have 'troll' in their username, or other likely troll names. I've figured that trolls band together in packs to spend mod points on each other.
Thus before you spend mod points, do a quick look at who you are modding, who they associate with and remember don't feed the trolls. Help slashdot get its signal to noise ratio back.
Lastly, M2'ing smartly can help this problem. I know it's hard to say wether a post wasn't insightful, informative or funny, or any of the mod up's. But remember if someone is clearly modding up a troll, they are perpetuating the problem.
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