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Mod points yet again. I think that this is the fifth set since they resumed back at the end of June.

Cool. As a way of returning the favor, I have resumed metamoderating. There must be something of a backlog, though, as the mods I'm getting for review tend to be about four months old. I'd think that more timely feedback would be a good thing.

Anyone know of any moderation injustices that need correcting? :-)

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  • Maybe because posts today are so lame they aren't worth modding?
  • Now there'll be two months of Ode To Slashdot poems :)

  • Got a few downmods left and right, some were justified, others not.... But I'm still rated "Excellent" so I couldn't care less.
  • I've been getting mod points recently too. I thought about trying to raise Red's karma just for the heck of it, but found better uses. I've been metamodding twice a day for awhile now. By far most of them are fair, but it seems that the waves of unfair mods are becoming more frequent.

    BTW, I finally read most of TMQ. He was pretty good, but tried a bit too hard sometimes to be contrarian. Thanks for the link though.

    Alas, all ye geeks,
    Of knowledge esoteric,
    The Mods know it not.

    • I've been getting them almost weekly; I wonder if I'd get them if I started signing in as my original account, too. (I was limited to meta on it back in 2004 during the /. scandal we're not allowed to talk about, I think) I think general apathy has made metamodding really fall behind. Which is dangerous, because it means bad moderations can be done for long enough for a troll to get high or excellent karma, before the correction.

      • "back in 2004 during the /. scandal we're not allowed to talk about, I think"

        You mean the "5<!3~70106y disappearing posts" trick?

        Here's your magic 1337-5934} [en|de]coder ring:
        echo "5<l3~70106y" | tr 'a4b8c<d[e3ffg6h#i!jjk}l1mmn~o0p9q@r/s5t7uuv^wwx%y yz2' '4a8b<c[d3eff6g#h!ijj}k1lmm~n0o9p@q/r5s7tuu^vww%xy y2z'

        • The irony about this was that users were saying "if you ask questions, it will happen to you, too" in someone's JE, so of course I responded, asking if it was true. From that point on, no more voting. But I did have meta. That's why I added this account :)

          • Some people obviously went overboard ... fortunately, people pointed out 2 things:

            1. If you start censoring posts of people's opinions, except for posts that are blatantly illegal (death threats, etc.) then you can no longer hide behind the "the posts are the property of the poster" defense;
            2. As you point out, "The Internet routes around damage" applies to accounts on forums as well;

            Since then, I've posted a few slags against scientology and individual scientologists, and the posts weren't to the best of m

  • Anyone know of any moderation injustices that need correcting? :-)

    Generally I've given up caring about moderation. But one instance [slashdot.org] still grates on me months afterwards: Bruce Perens gets his usual +5 for some absurd comment, gets called on it and then rakes in +5 after +5 while gradually backing down, while the people who objected (that'd be me, among others) wind up with -1's.

  • ya (Score:1)

    by Bill Dog ( 726542 )
    Anyone know of any moderation injustices that need correcting? :-)

    I hate how every first post that's not a simple troll gets modded to +5. Even if it states nothing beyond the obvious.

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