Please also review our SoylentNews Moderation Guidelines.
As always, we are willing to make changes to the system, but please post examples *with* links to any cases of suspected mod abuse. It's a lot easier to justify changing the system when evidence is in black and white. I also recommend that users make serious proposals on changes we can make. I'm not going to color the discussion with my own opinions, but as always, I will respond inline with comments when this goes live, and post a follow up article a few days after this one
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Marneus68 on Wednesday May 20 2015, @10:14AM
While I wait for any evidence of the contrary, I think the way the moderation is handled on the site is working fine now. I really the way it works.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 20 2015, @11:53AM
> I really the way it works.
I also the way it works.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 20 2015, @04:42PM
Having the button next to the mod dropdown makes it a lot harder to accidentally the wrong moderation, too.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday May 21 2015, @01:55AM
Yeah, but it's still possible to accidentally the whole internet though...
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Wednesday May 20 2015, @02:36PM
I agree. I could foresee problems in the future if the site gains orders of magnitude more traffic, but then the conversation could be reopened then.
Currently the largest issue I see is a lack of moderation, for each article very few comments make it beyond +2. Which is fine, given that the discussion is typically 30~50 comments long, and rarely degrades to the point that I am disappointed with the community.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday May 20 2015, @04:49PM
While I wait for any evidence of the contrary, I think the way the moderation is handled on the site is working fine now. I really the way it works.
I just wanted to add that the last couple of months on Soylent have been particularly hospitable. I'm quite happy with the moderation of late. I'm also familiar with the whining AC. He reminds me of a customer I had when I worked in retail that would go from store to store, try to return something he had obviously shrinkwrapped, then act all enraged like we had somehow wronged him. He'd try to use that rage to try to get us to kiss his butt and make the illegal return go through. Despite several attempts over the course of a year he never, to my knowledge, succeeded. That's the image I have in my head when I read these posts by the AC. In fact, just like the AC posing as multiple people, he'd send his wife in a little later to try it again!
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(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Thursday May 21 2015, @02:51AM
Agreed, those people will always be around. I have hospitality and retail background, so for me it's tough, I want to please everyone. But you just can't. = )
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2015, @05:58AM
>I just wanted to add that the last couple of months on Soylent have been particularly hospitable.
yeah i aint seen much of the buzzard either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @12:39PM
you're happiest when you and your socialist windbag fuck buddies are sucking each other off