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posted by on Friday August 25 2017, @11:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-really-big-time-now dept.

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:48AM (8 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:48AM (#559200) Journal

    Agreed: I used to mod carefully, not wanting to waste. Now I'll try to mod more.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:05AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:05AM (#559371)

    How about getting 1 mod point per hour up to a limit of 10? That would incentivize repeat visits rather then dumping all the mod points and leaving.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:28AM (6 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:28AM (#559381) Homepage Journal

      Interesting idea. Have to think on it some.

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      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:54AM (5 children)

        by Reziac (2489) on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:54AM (#559658) Homepage

        I can tell you it would cut WAY back on my use of mod points, probably to no more than one used per day (and only 3-4 times a week) because I'm rarely here more than once a day; I have other things to do besides visit the same site over and over just in case someone posted something I want to mod up. Normally I visit when a story attracts my notice or I get notices of mods on my own posts -- not randomly all day long.

        So, IMO bad idea for busy people.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 27 2017, @01:11AM

          Fair point there as well.

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Monday August 28 2017, @12:50PM (3 children)

          by urza9814 (3954) on Monday August 28 2017, @12:50PM (#560202) Journal

          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)

            by Reziac (2489) on Monday August 28 2017, @01:27PM (#560220) Homepage

            Ah, I missed the 'accumulate' part, but that might be more workable.

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            • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday August 28 2017, @01:42PM (1 child)

              by urza9814 (3954) on Monday August 28 2017, @01:42PM (#560226) Journal

              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

                by Reziac (2489) on Monday August 28 2017, @09:48PM (#560540) Homepage

                Yeah, it's not like when the green site was new and we all had it up 24 hours a day :D

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