Journal Sanity's Journal: Censored by Slashdot for criticising Apple! 8
Meahwhile another user, "hanssprudel", posted a much smarter and wittier comment highlightling the hypocrisy of the Slashdot groupthink who claim to hate DRM, except when it happens to be Apple's DRM. Quite correctly it was moderated up to +4 before, like mine, the fanboys spotted this crime against their beloved Apple and down it went.
All was not lost, it turns out that some moderators actually read the moderator guidelines and decided to try to counteract the handiwork of their fellow moderators. Up and down the comments went, until then - something really surprising happened - I tried to post again and got the following message:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are "09b3980f7f6a2eef8e166300c0c88a54" and "7bc76bb089f2d469d9d92e2d28d45ba5" and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number "81.178.66.53" and your username "Sanity"
Well that's just great, I have been banned for excessive negative moderation, which wouldn't actually have been possible had it not been for all the positive moderation! Really clever precaution they have there. What is even better is that hanssprudel met the exact same fate (it turned out that I knew him IRL), presumably for the exact same reason!
He and I both emailed the slashdot editors, confident that they would quickly see the flaw in this silly system, unblock us, and apologise for the inconvenience. Not so, instead hans was told by CmdrTaco himself that he "deserved it" - why? Because apparently his "comment was dripping with sarcasm". Great! Glad that is clarified, you can rant about gay n*ggers all you want, but anybody that is sarcastic on Slashdot gets banned from posting for several days!
Two days later I am still banned, not sure about hans. It seems pretty clear from our correspondence with the
welcome to /. (Score:2)
Re:welcome to /. (Score:2)
And another thing: Trying to search for something in Slashdot is like trying to find information by title alone in an unsorted library. And even then, you can only search for one word at a time. Seriously, there needs to be a full-text search.
Moderation bug (Score:2)
Of course neither action guarantees that the Slash team would accept it, or even see it as a bug...
Re:They did (Score:2)
there are lots of problems with the voting system (Score:2)
So, any
Re:there are lots of problems with the voting syst (Score:1)
Not reliability. Tokens. Not nearly as long lasting as you make it sound. One accumulates tokens randomly (by being logged in -- more likely if your "fairness" is high) and by things like metamoderating. And, yes, you do get penalized for metamoderating against groupthink, but only in tokens. Ones fairness rating is only based on M2 of his M1. I ramble a bit about these things in my last journal entry.
As a reference of how things can seem screwy: Last time I got moderation was about three weeks a
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