Today I am going to show how toxic moderation is ruining /. Below is the email I received with moderation for one day, with my comments interspersed.

Note that this is not an isolated incident. It's been happening since mid-March. I think that my record is 11 mods in one day, all down, with the posts up to 14 days old being downmodded.

The first thing to note is that there are 6 moderations. 6 in one day. Since my karma is terrible, I can only post twice in 24 hours, but the fact is I rarely post. Is anyone going to claim that the same 10-day old post getting two mods on the same day is normal moderation and not abusive moderation?

So, let's go through the mods:

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:07:58 +0000
From: slashdot@slashdot.org
To: <redacted>
Subject: [Slashdot] Comment Moderation

A user has moderated your comment "Offtopic" (-1).
        Re:Shitty summary
        https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17020831&cid=60426965

Attached to:
        Tens of Suspects Arrested For Cashing-out Santander ATMs Using Software Glitch
        https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/21/159254

It is currently scored Informative (0).

Offtopic? I make a comment about Santander in an article about Santander. Note how old my post is: almost 10 days old. Who moderates 10 day old posts, unless they are targeting a specific user?

================================================================================

A user has moderated your comment "Offtopic" (-1).
        Re:Not really surprising to me
        https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17014289&cid=60424791

Attached to:
        AI Claims 'Flawless Victory' Going Undefeated In Digital Dogfight With Human Fighter Pilot
        https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/20/2130216

It is currently scored Insightful (0).

Again: offtopic? A comment about one huge advantage AI pilots have in an article about AI pilots. This one is a full 10 days old.

================================================================================

A user has moderated your comment "Flamebait" (-1).
        Clearance?
        https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17004743&cid=60419069

Attached to:
        Ex-Apple Engineer Says U.S. Government May Have Built a Top-Secret Geiger Counter Out of an iPod
        https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/19/1427243

It is currently scored Insightful (-1).

This one got a flamebait mod. I'm just at a loss how this could be considered flambait. Slightly older now:11 days old.

================================================================================

A user has moderated your comment "Troll" (-1).
        Re:It deserves to die
        https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17027035&cid=60430385

Attached to:
        Bletchley Park Museum To Layoff a Third of Its Staff
        https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/22/1930241

It is currently scored Normal (-1).

Factual, uncontroversial comment labelled as "Troll". This one was slightly newer: only 8 days old.

================================================================================
================================================================================

A user has moderated your comment "Troll" (-1).
        Re:Shitty summary
        https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17020831&cid=60426965

Attached to:
        Tens of Suspects Arrested For Cashing-out Santander ATMs Using Software Glitch
        https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/21/159254

It is currently scored Informative (-1).

This is the same comment that was moderated "Offtopic" earlier. Note that the same 10-day old comment was down-modded twice on the same day. Thus, it's more than one account, or possibly a /. editor.
================================================================================

A user has moderated your comment "Troll" (-1).
        Re:Not really surprising to me
        https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17014289&cid=60424791

Attached to:
        AI Claims 'Flawless Victory' Going Undefeated In Digital Dogfight With Human Fighter Pilot
        https://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=20/08/20/2130216

It is currently scored Insightful (-1).

Once more, an example of a 10-day old comment receiving two down-mods on the same day. Is this normal moderation? Is this other than someone targeting my account?
======================================================================

Here, we have a post admitting to the toxic moderation, but, since it's anonymous, it may have no connection to the real troll moderator.

The toxic downloads seem to have started around the time I showed that "One Smart Fellow" is probably the same person as "Way Smarter Than You" in this thread, where you will see that "One Smart Fellow" responds to a post as though the poster were "Way Smarter Than You". "Way Smarter Than You" claims to have been on /. for 10 years, despite a 7-digit UID and then "One Smart Fellow" "explains" that he lost his login -- but this would be a complete non-sequitur unless these two posters are the same person.

You will have to change the thresholds to look at the hidden replies. Here

I finally did it, a one-word post was modded up to +5 funny! OK, so the title was 2 words, but there was only one word in the text -- read it here. If you don't think it is funny, then read the article text.