In this post, Rob claims to be a Journalist.

I do believe that real journalists the world over, upon researching his "journalism-fu" (this entire site), will be insulted.

Hello.

Recently I was given a post in trolltalk to meta-moderate. I'd run into that "discussion" before, but never bothered to ask anything about it.

So what the hell is it? Some weird story posted by Rob or something so that all trolls could have somewhere to be trolls?

This is a repost of an earlier Journal Entry. I'm a real believer in Meta-Mod abuse, so I'd like to keep reminding those of you who read my JEs to get on it. Those of you who are permanently labeled "Trolls" by editors should probably start a "slashdot-friendly" account, where you parrot the irrational and ignorant postings of the nearest Slashbot zealot, gain karma, and after a time be able to abuse the system to your heart's content.

Hey, why's my Karma "Terrible"? Oh, yeah. Trolling.

It's been a great year. At least my work IP is no longer banned.

Edit: Hahahahaha... I'm one of a very select few on timothy's foes list. That's a really special thing.

I don't know who's doing the GNAA crapflooding, but my hat's off to you. I hope you're keeping Taco up all night on his fat ass sipping Gin & Tonics and writing desperate message on Perl message boards:

"OMG BEING CRAPFLODED HOW U WRITE PERL PLEASE SUBMIT PATCH LOL"

Shithead.

Got some more mods on those comments... several days later:

Comment Moderation

sent by Slashdot Message System
on Wed Jun 11, '03 07:05 PM

Unnecessary , posted to Force Field. No, Really , has been moderated Troll (-1).

It is currently scored Funny (2).

Unnecessary , posted to Force Field. No, Really , has been moderated Funny (+1).

It is currently scored Funny (2).

Whoops.

I fired off a number of comments this morning, and my karma's now "Bad". I can't wait to see the moderation totals, since one comment has been all over the spectrum with the mod points wasted on it.

Alas, with "bad" karma, I can't Meta-Mod.

If any of y'all have some points, could you send 'em my way, once the stories are low on the front page (and therefore "out of mind" of the slashbots)? I'd be very grateful.

Yours in trolling,
MondoMor

Busy becoming betrothed recently. For those who care, I leave you this link:

psychoflubber.com

I love it.

I can't resist! This post, pertaining to the "Fyodor incident" got up-modded. I was given one of the up-mods in my latest meta-mod session.

By God, you can be sure I marked that sucker "Fair".

I know I've been making a lot of noise about how meta-mod can be used as a tool to increase the noise.

Here's a real-world example. This post came to me for meta-modding. The moderation I was assigned to meta-mod was the one UP-MODDING the post to "Interesting". Of course I marked it "fair", because whatever moderator sacrificed a mod point for that post deserves to be rewarded.

I've been faithfully meta-modding just about everything as "unfair" or "unfunny" (see my reasoning here) for a few months now.

But lately I've noticed more and more dissenting comments with upmods. I certainly do not want the guy who modded a "michael is a cunt" up to lose his moderation power, so I made sure to meta-mod this "fair".

Oh, boy are things fucked up tonight. I keep getting the "Have you Meta-Moderated today" message, so I'm doing my duty.

I sure hope the five hundred or so mods I meta-modded as "unfair" tonight really stick. I like to think I've sufficiently affected the moderation pool, but likely there's billion that I won't see.

Ah, well. At least I did SOME damage.

FUCK YOU, Slashdot.

I've been otherwise occupied and haven't posted or trolled lately. What with the war, actual work being done and family shite, lowering the signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot is a pretty low priority.

I have been doing light surfing of Slashdot lately, and it does seem that the trolls have taken over.