mfh's Journal: Frustration with Funny Mod

I'm pretty sick and tired of the funny mod. I happen to like making people laugh, and I have a dry humour about myself. But that adds up to big problems with Slashdot's funny moderation. You get karma taken off when they mod you down, but you don't get karma when they mod you up. This leads to what I can only call Karma errosion due to comedic pressence. Therefore I will talk like a computer in all future /. comments and only say funny things on my own blog, where I can't be censored. Everything I will say here will tend towards the insightful moderation only, mostly due to my business philosophy. I will leave the jokes out of Slashdot from now on -- even when they fix the moderation system like they have been promising.

As a result I have been post-locked again. I think I'm not going to post here anymore until they sort this out. I know CMDRTACO wants to do his best to ensure that we all have a good Slashdot experience -- and you can't possibly do that with trolls running around. So I get the need for moderation.

Now I am going to be posting to my blog whenever I feel the need to comment, like I did this morning with the news of low-cost systems beating out Microsoft. // EDIT :: RSL :: May 30, 2005 @ 09:16:48 AM
I wanted to clarify that there are a long list of moderators who mod me down only because I bought this account on Ebay. Whenever they run out of mod points, they like to let people know about this purchase, as if it really has a bearing on how I should be moderated. Personally I think it's novel to have a low UID on Slashdot, and I wanted one for my birthday, so I bought this acct from a Slashdot beta tester named Mike Hughes. I've since used this under the guise of Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound (MFH), so all ye D&D buffs will get that ref... but the fact is -- he didn't want it -- I wanted it -- and that's all there is, really.

Most of my fans now know this fact, and the ones that don't are either no longer on Slashdot, or only recently friended me. But if you find that you have friended me after April 2004, then you likely did so because you like what I had to say.

If you friended me because you thought it was cool to see a low UID post something, you will notice that since I have been posting regularly on this acct, a lot of really low UIDs have come back in full force, so I have really achieved something.

I've seen regular posts from people with < 40 UIDs. And that can't be a bad thing to get these old Slashdotters back into action again, can it?

may I suggest....

[zogger]

...Technocrat. We need more posters. The articles are there and are a good mix, and we have a good signal to noise ratio.

You can put a modifier

[smittyoneeach]

To lower Funny posts, over in the preferences.

Don't take /. too seriously

[Nethead]

#1563 here:

Your buying a low /. number reminds me of my ham radio license. A bit over 10 years ago when I got my ham ticket I was assigned KB7WAI. This may seem ok to those not learned in the way of amateur radio geekness, but since we like to add mnemonics to our callsigns (and then fight about whether that is proper or not) the first thing that came to my mind when I opened the envelope was WAI: What An Idiot.

The FCC (Uncle Charlie to us hams) decided to start a vanity callsign program, kind of like va

Re:Don't take /. too seriously

[W1BMW]

Yep, 'Cream Of Mushroom' is better than 'What An Idiot'. My main reason to upgrade to an advanced class license was to get rid of my 'WD5FOS' call, aka 'Full Of Shit' (true).

W1BMW was selected as a vanity call just because it looked good on the license plate of my '02 K1200RS (BMW Motorcycle) and K9SEX was taken.

73,
zim