nizo's Journal: Humorless mods??

Dang, even my post about my offtopic response being insightful since the parent (at the time) was marked as a troll didn't get a laugh. Should I just change my sig to be "I AM JOKING DAMMIT"??? Or is offtopic the way some people mod something they think isn't funny?

Modding

[Ra5pu7in]

Off-topic seems to be the catch-all moderation for any post from the top of a thread down that are derailing from the original article. Sometimes it is use to try to squash an entire thread.

I know I rarely use my mod points for funny posts - unless the humor is on topic (and not the "mandatory Simpson quote" kind of humor). I prefer to mod up comments I find interesting or insightful (leaving the down-modding of troll, flamebait, and off-topic comments to others).

Re:Modding

[LPetrazickis]

Moris. You die.

You have mastered a dead tongue, but can you handle a live one?

Re:Modding

[daniil]

Easy. Just chop it off and boil it for 5 minutes.

Re:Modding

[tuxette]

No, no, no. Boiling only takes away the flavor. Fry it in butter!

Lovely...

[daniil]

With the thread in question accounting for about half of the comments posted to that story, and the rest being mostly Roland-bashing, i think it's safe to call it a troll story.

Re:Lovely...

[nizo]

So if the story is a troll, and a comment bashing the story is modded as a troll, and my comment to the troll comment is modded as offtopic [nizo's head explodes]

Re:Lovely...

[LPetrazickis]

Two trolls don't make a wight.

Re:Lovely...

[daniil]

...but they do make a dead Paladin.

Re:Lovely...

[LPetrazickis]

"Jews can't be Paladins."
- Eric Cartman, South Park

Alas

[queenofthe1ring]

My last mod point expired sometime during the night, else I would have helped you out. Sorry friend.

Re:Alas

[nizo]

That is ok, it looks like others have come to my rescue, as I am still able to inflict my posts on an unsuspecting Slashdot community.

Don't worry about it

[October_30th]

My advice is: just keep on posting whatever you feel like posting and stop caring about the moderation. Moderation on /. is terminally broken.

Re:Don't worry about it

[Le Marteau]

My advice is: just keep on posting whatever you feel like posting and stop caring about the moderation.

Say it, brother October 30th!

It all came to me, one time when I had mod points. I was concerned that the metamods might not understand the context of my moderation, and that perhaps I should not do what I wanted to do with my mod points.

Then I realized, what's the use of having mod points if you can't use them as you wish? If I'm going to be prevented from modding based on something besides what I s

From their perspective:

[OwlWhacker]

You have to remember that many here on Slashdot are just dumb, wannabe geeks. Any chance of showing power, in some malicious way, is relished.

Bless them. What other chance of power do they have?

I expect that they're out there now, trying to seduce an AOL bot, thinking they're in with a chance.