Real World Stuff's Journal: This is what a modbomb looks like

Comment Moderation sent by Slashdot Message system on 16:05 Wednesday 26 February 2003

Whore Whore Whore, posted to Examining Microsoft Update, has been moderated Offtopic (-1).

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Re:"According to Mr. Gates"?, posted to Microsoft: Because Bugs are Cool, has been moderated Overrated (-1).

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Felt it over here in O.C., posted to the earth quakes, has been moderated Overrated (-1).

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Ghey...Mucho Mucho GHEY, posted to Football Withdrawal, has been moderated Overrated (-1).

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Note the overrated...

[(H)elix1]

Overrated is the modbomber's weapon of choice. Nothing you can do about it - no way to metamod - no way to filter out its effects. Argh!

Re:Oh yeah?

[martinmcc]

Your needles stuck again NFT's. Running low on origional, inspiored, postings? Perhaps a little more conversation practise with your dollies is required. You'll get there eventually.

Taco's handy modbombing FAQ

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1. Who is this FAQ intended for?
Victims of so-called "modbombing", which DOES NOT EXIST.

2. What is modbombing?
"Modbombing" (which doesn't exist) is the name for a mythical series of moderations that result in several moderations of a user's comment in a negative fashion.

3. Why would anyone make up something as silly as that?

This is a myth invented and perpetuated by known serial trollers. They even claim that "rouge editors" [slashdot.org] "modbomb" entire threads of comments. Which is obviously [slashdot.org] a false myth, once again.

4. If modbombing doesn't exist, why did you stop taking the time off messages sent telling you that you received moderations?

To save bandwidth. Obviously, on a sinking ship like OSDN is, the eliminating of 6 characters from a message saves about two bucks a quarter, which lets us order Cowboy Neal a pizza every 10 years approximately.
Someday (in approximately 50 years for our retirement party) we are optimistic we will be able to afford a party pizza for Neal and one for the rest of the editors. Unfortunately, whatever toppings we agree on micheal insists he doesn't like.

6. Why should we care?
SUBCRIBE. WE'RE POOR.

7. I was under the impression that if we subscribed, half the promised features don't work.

Another lie perpetuated by trolls.

8. You're a little paranoid about the trolls, aren't you?

NO, we must defend ourselves against them by any means possible, even if it means a 72 hour IP ban for receiving 5 negative moderations.