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So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.
When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.
In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.
~ NCommander
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NCommander on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:57AM
Meta moderation (M2) was fixed some time ago, but is disabled. The current moderation algrothimn doesn't look at the m2 fields in the database at all. I'm not convinced its a way to fix the problem because very few people on the whole moderate in general, and meta-moderation just gets tedious after awhile to the point I'm concerned it would compound the groupthink, since the subset of those who M2 would have more control over who gets mod points vs. not.
I may be willing to try it on a trial basis, but I'm on the whole 'eh'.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:54AM
How about making down-mods have negative consequences after say the first 2 per day. That way real trolls can still get their -1s, but people who just go around hammering opinions they don't like will soon end up with no mod points.
The lack of consequences for bad moderation are what screwed up Slashdot. Meta-moderation was supposed to fix it, but after a while they just started abusing that too and it actually created a feedback loop that ended up helping the trolls.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:36AM
How about giving out ten points a day and only letting five(?) of them go to downmods? Been tossing that one around inside my head for a bit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Tuesday November 08 2016, @11:49AM
I like that, but maybe only 2 for down-mods. What we really want is people to up-mod replies that rebuff arguments they disagree with, not simply mod them down.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:33PM
Yeah, I expect it'll take some trial and error to find a good balance but we do want people to be able to handle a spam flood as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.