Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation (Score -1, Offtopic)

It seems worthwhile to every now and then keep a running total of the current moderations on the parent. We're now at

Offtopic=197, Flamebait=4, Troll=20, Redundant=3, Insightful=53, Interesting=110, Informative=28, Funny=6, Overrated=9, Underrated=34, Total=464

The number of comments in the thread looks to be around 520, based on reading at -1 and grepping for comment headers.

I'm disappointed in the editors. The one time I heard them explaining the purpose of editor moderations, it was so that they could *assist* the user moderators. They wanted user moderators to be able to focus on modding up good posts, so the editors' philosophy was that they would use editorial points to mod down obviously bad posts, so that the user moderators wouldn't have to.

All in the name of saving user moderator points, so that they can put them to good use, right? Sounds good. Except here, where the editors have gone completlely crazy on trying to maintain the purity of on-topic discussion, and don't care how many user moderations they cancel out in the process.

Bleagh.