CaptainCheese's Journal: Slashdot moderation - least unnacceptable solution

The problem with democracy is that you have to give idiots the vote. I have been modded -1 overrated and troll for things that I considered perfectly acceptable posts.

I don't think "-1 100% Overrated" is fair moderation - I mean, something has to be rated(!) before it is "overrated".

(sigh) I wish people would read the moderation guidlines before moderating, or at least the little helpful comment on the right "Concentrate on promoting more than demoting"

There may be some idiocy involved, or just some hurried attempts to moderate without checking if it's your modifiers that are modding me up. After all, I've had good karma since my first post, and I don't recall ever posting AC, so for some users that'll be an automatic +2...

but I can't think of any better system that will still remain as simple. I guess I'll have to help out with metamoderating when I'm allowed to...