Welcome, new trolls! We're pleased as punch to have you aboard, unfortunately as you may have noticed our moderators are unable to give you the moderations you've been working so hard for. Since we can't really do much about people not moderating more, we're going to be giving out more points so that the ones that do can give you the attention you so desperately crave.
Moderators: Starting a little after midnight UTC tonight, everyone will be getting ten points a day instead of five. The threshold for a mod-bomb, however, is going to remain at five. This change is not so you can pursue an agenda against registered users more effectively but so we can collectively handle the rather large uptick in anonymous trolling recently while still being able to have points remaining for upmodding quality comments. This is not an invitation to go wild downmodding; it's helping you to be able to stick to the "concentrate more on upmodding than downmodding" bit of the guidelines.
Also, this is not a heavily thought-out or permanent change. It is a quick, dirty adjustment that will be reviewed, tweaked, and likely changed before year's end. Questions? Comments?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Monday August 28 2017, @12:50PM (3 children)
The suggestion was to accumulate one per hour up to a maximum of 10. So I'd expect that to mean that if you visit once per day, you'd have 10 mod points each time you visit. If you spend 'em all and come back two hours later, you'd have two more points; otherwise if you come back in 10 hours or in 40 hours, you'd have a full ten points again.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday August 28 2017, @01:27PM (2 children)
Ah, I missed the 'accumulate' part, but that might be more workable.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday August 28 2017, @01:42PM (1 child)
Yeah looking at it again it doesn't actually say 'accumulate', but that's how I read it...I could perhaps be the one who's wrong, but I'd agree with you that if it was expiring them every hour that probably wouldn't work too well...I kinda doubt there are many people spending ten hours a day on this site :)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday August 28 2017, @09:48PM
Yeah, it's not like when the green site was new and we all had it up 24 hours a day :D
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.