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Comment Re:lolol offtopic (Score 0) 85

I think people deserve a little more respect, even if they are dumb.

I think that people who treat others without respect deserve the same experience. If it looks like I'm being rude to someone out of nowhere, that's a case of missing context. I have, after all, been interacting with some of these people for decades.

And yes, the moderation system is flawed, and "troll" often means "I disagree with you but cannot articulate a response". It sucks. I'll try to mod you up if i notice it.

I appreciate that. Let me just give an example which was already corrected, and which occurred under this story: this comment was modded down and languished for a while, while this comment which was posted after it rose rapidly to 5. I am not complaining about that comment; it is a perfectly good comment and deserved to be modded up. My complaint is in the case of my comment, which said essentially the same thing and was posted earlier, it was modded down by someone who wanted to prevent me from being heard.

Why do I bother to bring this up? Because sometimes this gets corrected naturally, moderation ultimately works, and comments are scored organically based on their composition. But in other cases, they don't, and one way to induce a correction is to post more comments complaining about it. For years I just ignored it when that happened, and my karma score would bounce around between 0 and 50. Since I started raising a ruckus about obviously abusive moderation, I have rarely been anywhere but up against the cap.

TL;DR: I do this because it is necessary to be heard. If we want to make it unnecessary, and I would love that, we have to solve the abusive moderation problem. The owners are actively disinterested in this because it would reduce comments, and thus ad impressions.

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