Jewcatur's Journal: I am being punished by Slashdot

Just to let everyone know, it looks like that my karma has been knocked down to Terrible, yet the moderation of my post has remain unchanged (sitting at +5 as I write this, not posted anything since then).

Looks like Slashdot is up to its dirty tricks again - may I remind everyone of this incident in which Slashdot hypocritically tried to keep a post from being seen and punished anyone for modding it up.

Michael's dirty tricks

[britneys 9th husband]

I don't think Michael appreciates having his hypocrisy pointed out. It's hardly surprising something like this would happen, especially with today being the third anniversary of the Post of Death.

Anyway, FYI, the "editors" changed the karma system so that a downmod is worth -2 karma points but an upmod is still only +1. Therefore repeated moderations that "cancel out" for comment scoring purposes will kill your karma. Yet another reason why Slashdot is dying faster than BSD.

And also, if you read my jou

Re:Michael's dirty tricks

[EvilStein]

I've noticed similar tactics.. a +5 comment becomes -1 Troll in 5 minutes, while identical comments are left at +5?

Strange stuff..

Re:Michael's dirty tricks

[britneys 9th husband]

Ok, first, if you've never tried digging around in the slashcode, you should do it someday. You might learn something you didn't know before.

That said, I originally discovered this a few months ago, when my karma was moving around between bad/neutral/positive. By carefully looking over the moderations I had received between a point in time when my karma was neutral and another, later point in time when it was back to neutral again, I noticed that there were exactly twice as many upmods as downmods (excludi

Clickable link

[britneys 9th husband]

The clickable link I promised in the parent:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/slashcode/sl ash/Slash/DB/MySQL/MySQL.pm?rev=1.750&view=markup [sourceforge.net]

I also found this interesting link [sourceforge.net] while I was waiting 2 minutes to post this comment. It's got various slashcode settings, and these defaults seem to all be what Slashdot uses. Some highlights: When m2ing, if you select Unfair 3 or more times, your m2ing will be ignored. If you select unfair 5 or more times, you get an "m2 penalty." You need Karma of 2